Análise das características da voz falada de mulheres idosas com prática de canto coral

• Autor(a) principal: Aquino, Fernanda Salvatico de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11975
• topic: Voz falada; Canto coral; Spoken voice; Choir singing; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::FONOAUDIOLOGIA

Purpose: To analyze the spoken voice characteristics of elderly women with choir singing practice. Methods: The subjects of this study were 75 elderly women aged in between 63 and 82 years, 50 of which participated in senior choirs (choir group CG) and 25 participated in activities that did not involve singing (non-choir group NCG). The groups were paired according to age, with a mean age of 71 (standard deviation of 5.22). A questionnaire with questions on sociodemographic data (age, past and present professional activity), daily life habits and vocal well-being (hydration, physical activities alcohol intake, cough, phlegm, speaking loudly and yelling) and vocal aspects (difficulties, tiredness and changes throughout time) was used in order to characterize the subjects, who were also asked to define their own voices in one word. In addition, the CG answered questions regarding for how long they had been singing, hours of weekly practice and difficulties perceived. Then, both groups had speech samples collected (sustained vowel /a/, sentence repetition and spontaneous speech), that were evaluated by three Speech- Language Pathologists, experienced in the field of voice using the CAPE-V auditory perceptive analysis tool. The assessment results considered were those from the judge that had the greatest agreement among the answers. Results: 90% of the choir singing subjects and 88% of the non-singing subjects reported having worked in the past, and 24% in both groups still work. Specifically for the CG, the time of choir participation varied between five years and eight months and 58 years (sd=8.7), with mean weekly practice of three and a half hours, varying between two and tem hours (sd = 1.9) and 16% of them reported difficulties in their singing practices. As far as habits, there was a significant difference in the comparison of the groups in regard to water intake and physical activity practice, both in greater numbers in the CG. There were no differences in the vocal aspects and perception of changes over time. In the definition of their own voice in one word, the term low-pitched was significantly more reported by the group of choir singers. In the auditory perceptive analysis, the NCG had significant differences in the scores related to the general grade and presence of roughness and tension. Conclusion: The analysis of the spoken voice characteristics of elderly women with choir singing practice, when compared to those who do not have it, showed better voice quality in general due to lower degrees of roughness and tension. In subject characteristics, the reports of higher water intake and physical activity practices differentiated the groups, in favor of the choir singing elderly women