Mohammad-Sadegh Seifpanahi1, Behnaz Bayat2, Somayeh Ghorbani Gholiabad3, Mohammad Rezayi4. 1. Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Autism spectrum disorders Research center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Mardom Park Street, P.O.Box: 6517838677, Hamadan, Iran. panahi29@gmail.com. 2. Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Ava Rehabilitation Center, Karaj, Iran. 3. Department of Biostatistics, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. 4. Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Autism spectrum disorders Research center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Mardom Park Street, P.O.Box: 6517838677, Hamadan, Iran.
Abstract
PURPOSE: The religious singing is a popular group of professional voice users in Iran which is performed in a sadness form to persuade the audiences to cry and think to holy persons. This style has its own unique vocal demands and abuses. Therefore, the present study, for the first time, aimed to investigate the prevalence of self-reported vocal complaints, vocal discomfort symptoms, and its effects on the vocal-related life of the Iranian religious singers. METHODS: In a cross-sectional study, 62 religious singers (28 women, 34 men) completed Singers Voice Handicap Index (SVHI), Vocal Tract Discomfort (VTD), and also a non-standard self-rated vocal complaint question. Spearman correlation test was applied to analyze correlations. Furthermore, 39 non-singers (18 women, 21 men) as a control group participated in this study. RESULTS: The religious singer's mean score of the SVHI test was 34.84 (SD = 24.89). According to the self-rated vocal complaint question, almost 80% of the participants reported mild to the severe vocal complaints that was significantly higher than control group which was about 10%. The self-rated complaints indicated a significant positive correlation with the SVHI and the VTD reported by singers (p ≤ 0.001). The mean scores of the VTD symptoms in singers were significantly greater than control group. There was also a significant positive correlation between the two VTD and SVHI tests (p ≤ 0.001). CONCLUSION: Religious singers are at a great risk of developing voice problems. Therefore, their vocal demands and requirements need to be followed precisely. The SVHI and VTD tests should also be considered as two efficient tools for religious singers.
PURPOSE: The religious singing is a popular group of professional voice users in Iran which is performed in a sadness form to persuade the audiences to cry and think to holy persons. This style has its own unique vocal demands and abuses. Therefore, the present study, for the first time, aimed to investigate the prevalence of self-reported vocal complaints, vocal discomfort symptoms, and its effects on the vocal-related life of the Iranian religious singers. METHODS: In a cross-sectional study, 62 religious singers (28 women, 34 men) completed Singers Voice Handicap Index (SVHI), Vocal Tract Discomfort (VTD), and also a non-standard self-rated vocal complaint question. Spearman correlation test was applied to analyze correlations. Furthermore, 39 non-singers (18 women, 21 men) as a control group participated in this study. RESULTS: The religious singer's mean score of the SVHI test was 34.84 (SD = 24.89). According to the self-rated vocal complaint question, almost 80% of the participants reported mild to the severe vocal complaints that was significantly higher than control group which was about 10%. The self-rated complaints indicated a significant positive correlation with the SVHI and the VTD reported by singers (p ≤ 0.001). The mean scores of the VTD symptoms in singers were significantly greater than control group. There was also a significant positive correlation between the two VTD and SVHI tests (p ≤ 0.001). CONCLUSION: Religious singers are at a great risk of developing voice problems. Therefore, their vocal demands and requirements need to be followed precisely. The SVHI and VTD tests should also be considered as two efficient tools for religious singers.
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Prevalence; Quality of life; Singer; Voice problem
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