Abstract
Purpose
This research gathered pilot data on the effects of a typical collegiate athletic
season on the male coach's voice.
Materials and methods
Ten male coaches and ten age- and sex-matched controls participated. Qualitative and
quantitative analyses were performed to assess group differences in: 1) written self-reports
obtained during one session, 2) acoustic and aerodynamic variables obtained during
regular season and during off-season for the coaches and only once for the controls,
and 3) auditory-perceptual data provided by three speech-language pathologists using
the Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice during one listening session.
Data pertaining to the coaches’ regular season, to the coaches’ off-season, and to
the control participants were designated as in-season, off-season, and control, respectively.
Results
Significant self-reported findings included more phonotraumatic behaviors in the coaches
than in the controls and higher in-season than off-season and control vocal demand.
The coaches’ history of voice problems was unrelated and the controls’ was related
to respiratory illness and addressing a large audience. A significant acoustic finding
was lower off-season than control low fundamental frequency. Finally, trained listeners
perceived control loudness as more aberrant than off-season loudness and they noted
vocal fry twice as many times in in-season and off-season than in control voices.
Conclusions
This study exposed traces of adverse voice reactions to coaching and confirmed that
coaches harbor a job-based proclivity to voice overuse. Self-reported measures appeared
to be the least and aerodynamic the most immune to phonatory exertion that pervades
daily coaching tasks. Future studies are warranted to further delineate how athletic
coaching interferes with voice production.
Key Words
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Published online: December 27, 2020
Accepted:
November 25,
2020
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