Education content in teachers’vocal health promotion: an integrated review

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: It is an integrated review aiming at knowing the educational content of collective and preventive actions on Teacher’s vocal health. METHOD: To perform this study, authors followed suggested criteria from Cochrane Handbook, which starts with the definition of research question, following search and selection of papers, and critical analysis of each paper. This process ends with analysis, interpretation and explanation of the findings about the research question. Through the search engine of Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS) portal, the Bireme, Pubmed, SciELO, Cochrane, Scopus and Web Of Science platforms / databases were consulted using the descriptors “voice and teacher”, “voice and professor”, in English, Portuguese and Spanish. The study reveals that there are a big variety of methods and educational contents used in actions on teacher’s vocal health. LITERATURE REVIEW: The first electronic search recorded 530 scientific papers, of which 510 were excluded and 20 elected because they are preventive collective practices focused on teachers’ vocal health, which described the educational content applied. CONCLUSION: The studies showed that there is great variability in the methodology and in the discussed educational content. In theoretical content, almost all interventions addressed the vocal hygiene issue. In the practical content, applied topics were heterogeneous