BSR
Vocal Health Survey Results.
41 Responses
Question 1: What do you do to maintain a healthy voice?
Speaking/Singing:
Limiting voice use and avoiding abuse (yelling etc) (14)
Speaking properly (6)
Vocalizing Daily (4)
Warm up well before serious singing (4)
Singing appropriate repertoire (2)
Dietary:
Drink adequate amount of water each day (18)
Either limit or eliminate alcohol consumption (9)
Eat a healthy diet (7)
Make dietary adjustment for reflux management (4)
No eating before bedtime (3)
No consumption of caffeine (3)
Medical:
Avoiding 1st and 2nd hand smoke (8)
Take daily vitamin or use supplements (3)
Don’t take birth control pills (2)
Avoid getting colds (3)
Lifestyle:
Get sufficient sleep each night (10)
Incorporate regular exercise or yoga (5)
Use Steam Humidifier (4)
Use sinus irrigation (4)
Only One respondent indicated that he/she did nothing regularly to maintain
their voice.
Question 2: What things could you do better to maintain
a healthy voice?
Speaking/Singing:
Warming up better before singing (4)
Talk less during the day (2)
Sing everyday (2)
Sing less everyday (2)
Working with a teacher regularly (1)
Dietary:
Drink more water (2)
Maintain a proper diet (2)
Drink less coffee (2)
Drink less alcohol (1)
Avoid dairy products (1)
Lifestyle:
Get adequate sleep each night (6)
Use humidifier at work or at home (2)
Exercise more (2)
Lose weight (1)
Follow your own rules about voice care (1)
Medical:
Need to get insurance (2)
Get allergy shots regularly (1)
Take reflux medication regularly (1)
2 respondents indicated
they might need to do something else but weren’t sure exactly what.
Question
3: Have you seen an ENT?
yes(29)
no (10)
no answer (1)
Question 4: Where did you go for treatment?
Not specified (5)
Dr. Zeitels, MEEI (9)
Dr. Franco, MEEI (4)
Dr. Stern, St. Elizabeth’s (4)
Harvard Vanguard (2)
Northeast ENT, Dartmouth MA (1)
Cambridge Otolaryngology (1)
Mt. Auburn Hospital (1)
Out of State (3) (Ohio, NYC, NJ)
Question 5: How did you decide where to go?
Voice teacher recommendation (11)
Referral by doctor (7)
Colleague recommendation (4)
Family member recommendation (2)
Reputation of doctor in community (2)
Emergency room referral (1)
Don’t remember (1)
Question 6: What kind of treatment did you receive?
Reflux diagnosis/treatment (8)
Routine exam (7)
Allergy treatment (5)
Vocal therapy (2)
Hearing check or treatment (3)
Tonsilectomy (1)
Can’t remember (1)
Question 7: Was the care you received adequate?
Yes (25)
No (0)
In between (3)
Question 8: If care wasn’t adequate, what needed
to be different?
Wasn’t a specialist in treating singers (1)
Had a rushed bedside manner (1)
Needed a better understanding of singers (2)
Needed to give more attention to patient symptoms (1)
Question 9: Would you return to the same place for
treatment?
yes(20)
no(4)
no answer given(3)
maybe(1)
Question 10: Are there any alternative vocal health
treatments with which you have found success?
None indicated (17)
Use of herbal supplements (7)
Use of nasal irrigation (4)
Use of steam inhalation (3)
Use of yoga/alexander technique (2)
Taking a low dose birth control pill (1)
Seeing a chiropractor (1)
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