A crossover study to assess the effect of Kanthya Dashemani on the quality of voice in Student Singers.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 3 期
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 44
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Improvement in voice fatigue after the administration of kanthya dashemani churna.
研究概览
简要总结
This study is crossover trial for comparing and generate efficacy of kanthya dashemani churna on quality of voice in student singers age between 18 to 30 years measured with objective parameters like fundamental frequency (FO), Jitter, Shimmer & Hormonic Noise ratio (HNR) through PRAAT software within 15 days. For comparing warm water gargle will be intervene. Study will be conducted in Department of Shalakya Tantra (Amrita School of ayurveda). Before trial, subjective and objective parameters will be assessed and recorded in case record form. Participants will be grouped into Group A and Group B of 44 participants each (22 Males & 22 Females). Group A will be given Kanthya Dashemani churna and Group B will be advised to do warm water gargle twice daily for 15 days. Then after 1 week of washout period Group A will be advised to do warm water gargle and Group B will be given Kanthya Dashemani Churna twice daily for next 15 days. The primary outcome measures will be improvement in voice fatigue and secondary outcome measures will be improvement in objective parameters like jitter, shimmer, fundamental frequency and hormonic to noise ratio.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Coin toss, Lottery, toss of dice, shuffling cards etc
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18.00 Year(s) 至 30.00 Year(s)（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •Student Singers who sings daily or occasionally without any diagnosed voice disorder and feel voice fatigue after singing.
- •Participants of both genders having GRBAS score in between 36 to 50.
排除标准
- •Participants had past history of neurological or pulmonary disease, head & neck surgery.
- •Participants with smoking or hearing complaints according to questionnaires.
- •Participants who reported cold or allergic respiratory conditions on the day of collection of voice sample.
- •Participants who were unable to perform the emission required to the recording of their voices will also be excluded from the study.
- •Professional singers.
结局指标
主要结局
Improvement in voice fatigue after the administration of kanthya dashemani churna.
时间窗: 15 Days
次要结局
- Improvement in subjective parameters and objective parameters like fundamental frequency, Jitter, shimmer & Hormonic to Noise Ratio (HNR) after the administration of kanthya dashemani churna.(15 Days)
研究者
Dr Sonal Mansing Bankar
Amrita School of Ayurveda