Protecting Teachers’ Voices: Investigating Risk Factors, Conducting Cost Analysis

保护教师的声音：调查风险因素，进行成本分析

基本信息

批准号：
10614921
负责人：
Eric J Hunter
金额：
$ 63.21万
依托单位：
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2013-04-12 至 2026-04-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10614921
关键词：
Acoustics Address Administrator Advocate Affect Attitude Behavioral Characteristics Child Clinical Clinical Data Clinical Trials Clinical assessments Communication Complex Cost Analysis Data Development Economics Education Educational process of instructing Engineering Environment Face Financial cost Focus Groups Goals Health Health Personnel Health Policy Health education High Prevalence Human Resources Individual Interdisciplinary Study Intervention Interview Knowledge Learning Length Measures Methodology Occupational Occupational Health Occupations Outcome Pattern Physiological Policies Policy Maker Predictive Factor Prevalence Preventive Principal Investigator Productivity Public Health Recovery Registries Rehabilitation therapy Reporting Research Research Personnel Resources Risk Risk Factors Sampling School Teachers Schools Science Selection Bias Stroboscopy Surveys System Technology Testing Time Translating Voice Work clinically significant communication theory cost cost effective economic impact educational atmosphere experience improved innovation insight large datasets present value preservation preventive intervention response risk mitigation simulation stem teacher tool treatment program virtual reality virtual reality environment

项目摘要

Project Summary/Abstract Schoolteachers' voice problems are significant, not only because these problems occur so frequently but also because they undermine education in the classroom. Research has suggested a number of associated physiological, environmental and behavioral risk factors. However, there remains a fundamental gap in understanding how these factors affect a teacher's vocal health over an academic year, how teachers accommodate to the vocal demands they face, and how current occupational policies (including the financial and attitudinal constraints of educational policy makers) impact teachers' vocal health for better or worse. The continued presence of this gap represents a barrier to the long-term objective of proactive vocal health education and treatment programs. The current proposal will move this effort forward by exploring how teachers' voices are impacted by vocal risks, vocal demands, vocal accommodations, and vocal health policies. Grounded on strong foundational work and a track record of productivity, this experienced research team proposes 3 specific aims: [1] determine the interactions between risk factors related to the occurrence of teacher voice problems by collating cross-sectional and longitudinal (year-long) survey data with standard voice assessments; [2] quantify teachers' perceptual acuity of and accommodations to classroom vocal demands that increase the risk of vocal health issues by conducting analyses in classrooms and simulated classroom environments; and [3] investigate current and potential school-based policies to improve vocal health by reviewing administrative responses to teachers' voice issues and quantifying the costs of both solutions and non-interventions. The proposal is innovative in part because it [1] merges virtual reality technologies with previously tested acoustic simulations and real-time auralization systems to replicate classroom risk factors and interventions, eliciting “teacher voice” in controlled settings; [2] uses tools from a unique interdisciplinary research team (i.e. Voice Science, Acoustical Engineering, Communication, Economics, and Education) to approach a significant public health concern in an effectively innovative way; and [3] combines reliable survey instruments (developed using focus groups) with standard clinical assessments to accurately track how a teacher's voice changes over the course of a full academic year. While not a clinical trial, these data are clinically significant because patterns may emerge, including when voice problems occur, how they progress over an academic year, and why they improve or worsen. Thus, this ambitious approach will help preserve teachers' vocal health, improve the response when problems present, and indirectly improve the classroom learning environment. The results of this study will also provide school administrators and other policy makers with practical and economically feasible information that can be used to support teachers' vocal health in their districts.

项目摘要/摘要学校老师的声音问题很大，不仅是因为这些问题如此频繁，而且还因为他们在课堂上破坏了教育。研究提出了许多相关的生理，环境和行为风险因素。但是，仍然存在根本的差距了解这些因素如何影响教师在一个学年中如何影响教师的声音健康，教师如何适应他们面临的人声要求以及当前的占领政策（包括财务教育政策制定者的态度限制）影响教师的声音健康，无论好坏。这持续存在此差距是积极主动人声健康的长期目标的障碍教育和治疗计划。当前的建议将通过探索如何推动这项努力教师的声音受到人声风险，人声需求，声音的影响和人声健康的影响政策。这项经验丰富的研究基于强大的基础工作和生产力的记录团队建议3特定目标：[1]确定与发生有关的风险因素之间的相互作用教师语音问题与标准的整理横截面和纵向（一年）调查数据语音评估； [2]量化教师对教室声乐的感知敏锐度和住宿要求通过在课堂上进行分析并模拟来增加声带问题的风险课堂环境； [3]调查目前和潜在的基于学校的政策以改善人声通过审查对教师语音问题的行政回应并量化两者的成本解决方案和非干预。该提议具有创新性，部分原因是它[1]合并虚拟现实具有先前测试的声学模拟和实时呼吸系统的技术以复制课堂风险因素和干预措施，在受控设置中引起“教师声音”； [2]使用来自独特的跨学科研究团队（即语音科学，声学工程，沟通，经济学和教育）以有效的创新方式对公共卫生关注； [3]将可靠的调查工具（使用焦点组开发）与标准临床评估以准确跟踪整个学年的教师的声音如何变化。尽管这些数据不是临床试验，因此在临床上很重要，因为可能会出现模式，包括声音出现问题，在学年中如何进步，以及为什么它们改善或更糟。那，这个雄心勃勃的方法将有助于保留教师的声音健康，改善出现问题时的反应，并间接改善课堂学习环境。这项研究的结果还将提供学校管理人员和其他具有实际且经济上可行的信息的政策制定者可以用来用于支持他们所在地区教师的声音健康。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（63）

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Comparison of Pitch Strength With Perceptual and Other Acoustic Metric Outcome Measures Following Medialization Laryngoplasty.

内侧喉成形术后音调强度与感知和其他声学测量结果的比较。

DOI：
10.1016/j.jvoice.2018.03.019
发表时间：
2019
期刊：
Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
影响因子：
0
作者：
Rubin,AdamD;Jackson-Menaldi,Cristina;Kopf,LisaM;Marks,Katherine;Skeffington,Jean;Skowronski,MarkD;Shrivastav,Rahul;Hunter,EricJ
通讯作者：
Hunter,EricJ

Tracking Occupational Voice State with a Visual Analog Scale: Voice Quality, Vocal Fatigue, and Effort.

使用视觉模拟量表跟踪职业语音状态：语音质量、语音疲劳和努力程度。

DOI：
10.1002/lary.30398
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
The Laryngoscope
影响因子：
0
作者：
Castillo-Allendes,Adrián;Guzmán-Ferrada,Daniel;Hunter,EricJ;Fuentes-López,Eduardo
通讯作者：
Fuentes-López,Eduardo

Progression of Voice Breaks in a Nonpathological Voice as an Indicator of Aerodigestive Health.