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Laryngeal findings in chant talkers

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Last updated: 26 Dec 2024

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ENT [PHONIATRIC]

Abstract

Background: Religious officials are responsible for presiding over rituals, teaching the doctrines and practices of their respective religions/work, performing tasks as counseling, reciting daily prayers, teaching, singing and leading life cycle religious services, such as weddings during multiple religious services each day of every week. Unfortunately, they do not undergo voice assessment or ENT examination although their profession depends very much on their speaking voice and artistic voice. Aim of the work: The aim of this study is to detect laryngeal changes among chant talkers who practice chanting more than 3 years for early diagnosis and proper intervention. Patients and methods: This study included: I) Patient interview. II) Audio recording III) Laryngeal examination. Results: This study was applied on 50 chanters with a mean age of 35.21. Only 42.6% of them received training before chanting, 52.5% received vocal hygiene advice, approximately 36% of the participants reported having a current voice disorder mostly voice fatigue but among them only 18% sought medical advice. Laryngeal problems found were mild laryngeal hyperemia (40%), mild free edge edema (60%), and moderate phonatory gap (46.7%). Conclusions: This current cross-sectional study revealed the importance of vocal hygiene and voice care among chanters and provides valuable insights into voice disorders. Further investigations are needed to explore the reasons behind the underreporting of voice complaints and the barriers to seeking medical advice.

DOI

10.21608/asmj.2024.272902.1231

Keywords

Voice problems, chanting, laryngeal examination

Authors

First Name

Marina

Last Name

Michail

MiddleName

Refaat Ramzy

Affiliation

Department of ENT, Phoniatrics Unit Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

marina-michail@hotmail.com

City

Cairo

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First Name

Nirvana

Last Name

Hafez

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of ENT, Phoniatrics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

nirvana@med.asu.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Nashwa

Last Name

Othman

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of ENT, Phoniatrics Unit, Faculty of medicine, Ain Shams university, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

nashwa.m.othman@med.asu.edu.eg

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-

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First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Yosef

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

m_el_shahed@med.asu.edu.eg

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-

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Volume

75

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

47552

Issue Date

2024-03-01

Receive Date

2024-02-28

Publish Date

2024-03-01

Page Start

191

Page End

199

Print ISSN

0002-2144

Online ISSN

2735-3540

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https://asmj.journals.ekb.eg/article_353806.html

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353,806

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Review Article

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2,823

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Journal

Publication Title

Ain Shams Medical Journal

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https://asmj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Laryngeal findings in chant talkers

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26 Dec 2024