Impacto imediato após demanda vocal no cantor de teatro musical

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Pacheco, Claudia de Oliveira Lima Camargo [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Voice; Dysphonia; Questionnaires; Voice quality; Singing; Fonoaudiologia; Speech therapy; Voz; Disfonia; Questionários; Qualidade vocal; Canto; Fonoterapia
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=5020778; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/50564

Objectives: Evaluate the immediate impact of vocal demand in musical theatre singers and explore its relation with the presence of vocal signs and symptoms. Methods: 264 singers/actors with ages from 18 to 72 and mean age of 33 years old took part in this research. 126 were female and 138 were male. All participants were currently performing musical theatre singers when the data was collected. All of them answered two questionnaires immediately after the performance. The first questionnaire was composed by 24 questions and was designed with the purpose of collecting information about identification, voice self-assessment and detailed explanation of the actors' characteristics, besides finding out the existence of vocal symptoms. The second one, Evaluation of the Ability to Sing Easily - EASE translated and culturally adapted to Brazilian Portuguese as EASE-BR. EASE-BR explores vocal fatigue features, pathologic-risk indicators and vocal concern after using the voice professionally. We have studied the relationship between the demographic data and the vocal use with the answers from EASE-BR. Results: Singers showed a low mean of 1.56 vocal symptoms being frequent throat clearing (50,76%) and chronic throat dryness (26.52%) the most mentioned ones. There was no significant difference in relation to age, number of practicing hours, singing lessons according to the total scores and subscales of EASE-BR. Artists with longer singing practice showed lower values at total scores and subscales of EASE-BR. Singers who have been singing opera and vocal solo besides musical theater presented lower values at total scores and subscales of EASE-BR. The ones with a higher number of vocal symptoms obtained higher scores both EASE-BR and subscales’. There was a fragile correlation between EASE-BR and vocal symptoms. The test-retest showed good reproduction. Conclusion: The data showed that singers evaluate the impact of vocal demand positively and considered their voices apt to a new performance. EASE-BR proved to be useful to identify vocal changes and it has a weak association with the presence of vocal symptoms.