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Date Published: 13/03/2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v510i2.2001
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Vol. 510 No. 2 (2022)
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Anh Tuấn, L. ., Thị Minh Hương, L. ., Tiến Dũng, P. ., & Thành Quân, N. . (2022). VOICE DISORDERS STATUS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTION AMONG FEMALE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN HANOI. Vietnam Medical Journal, 510(2). https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v510i2.2001

VOICE DISORDERS STATUS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTION AMONG FEMALE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN HANOI

Lê Anh Tuấn1,, Lương Thị Minh Hương2, Phạm Tiến Dũng1, Nguyễn Thành Quân1
1 National ENT Hospital
2 Hanoi Medical University

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Objective: The study aims to assess the status of voice disorders andeffectiveness of interventions among 476 female primary school teachers in Gia Lam district, Hanoi City. Hanoi. Methods: An interventional study without control. Results: 87.82% of primary school teachers in Gia Lam district have a high rate of voice disorders, in which functional voice disorders accounts for 78.71%, and physical voice disorders accounted for 21.29%. Interventional studies including voice hygiene and voice training, treatment of ENT pathology and laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) diseases have a good effect on voice disorders, reducing the incidence and severity level of voice disorders. The intervention study significantly reduced the functional symptoms of voice disorders. Intervention for voice disorders was highly effective with comorbidities, specifically, with LPR before intervention, 46.3%, at the 2nd visit, it was 13.4%. ENT diseases before intervention was 28.7% of female teachers, at the 2nd visit it was 7.9%, p<0.05. Conclusions: The rate of voice disorders in female primary school teachers accounts for a high rate, intervention by voice training and internal medicine treatment brings high efficiency to voice disorders in primary school teachers.

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voice disorders, ear nose throat, female primary teacher, Gia Lam district

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