Virtual Reality in Teachers' Vocal Motor Behavior Acquisition (VirtuVox)

University of Liege

Status: Completed

Conditions: Virtual Reality Therapy; Voice Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Direct Method; Behavioral: Indirect Method

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04096352

VirtuVox2

Details and patient eligibility

About

Scientific literature supports that teachers are at greater risk for voice disorders than the general population. In the classroom, the teacher's voice represents the main communication tool. Optimal voice use is indispensable to ensure effective teaching and preserve the teacher's vocal health.

This project investigates how virtual reality (VR) facilitates the learning of effective vocal skills and their application in real-world contexts. Based on acoustic analyses and self-assessment scales, the investigators compare 100 future teachers randomly assigned in two groups. The experimental group (n=50) receives a voice training by VR simulations and voice information. The control group (n=50) only receives voice information.

Full description

Experimental group participants receive direct method (three 1-hour sessions of voice training by virtual reality simulations over a course of 3 weeks) and indirect method (one 1-hour session of information on voice function and voice hygiene). Control group participants receive indirect method (one 1-hour session of information on voice function and voice hygiene).

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• future teacher having completed at least one internship as a schoolteacher
• speaking French fluently

Exclusion criteria

• hearing impairment
• voice pathology at the time of the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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41 participants in 2 patient groups

Indirect+Direct method

Experimental group

Description:

Indirect method: one session of information on voice function and voice hygiene. Direct method: three sessions of voice training using virtual reality simulations over a course of 3 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Indirect Method

Behavioral: Direct Method

Indirect method

Active Comparator group

Description:

Indirect method: one session of information on voice function and voice hygiene.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Indirect Method