Stress and autonomic dysfunction symptoms related to voice in Brazilian university professors during the covid-19 pandemic
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Vanessa Veis Ribeiro1,2, Kelly da Silva1,3, Raphaela Barroso Guedes-Granzotti1
1Department of Speech Language-Pathology, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Lagarto, Sergipe, Brazil.
Objective:
To analyze the association of autonomic dysfunction symptoms with stress in Brazilian university professors of the Speech Language-Pathology course during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Methods:
Fifty-five Brazilian university professors participated in the study, with a mean age of 42 years and 10 months old (±8.75), 49 female and six male subjects. The evaluated outcomes were the symptoms of stress and self-assessment of autonomic dysfunction symptoms. The results were inferentially analyzed using binary logistic regression and chi-squared tests (p < .05).
Results:
In 54.54% of the university professors presented stress, with a predominance of psychological symptoms and a higher frequency resistance phase. Stress was a risk factor for the high occurrence of autonomic dysfunction symptoms related (OR 5.841) and unrelated (OR 29.750) to voice. There was an association between the predominance of psychological symptoms and the higher occurrence of autonomic dysfunction symptoms related to voice (p < .001).
Conclusions:
There was an association between autonomic dysfunction symptoms and stress in Brazilian university professors during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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