Physical Touch in the Voice Studio - A Survey of Singers
The purpose of this study is to gather data on physical touch in the voice studio, both consensual and non-consensual, and to discover how a voice teacher may or may not use or have used physical touch with a singer in a private voice lesson. The study aims to investigate and understand how physical touch is being used within voice lessons from the perspective of the voice student and their experience in a private voice lesson with their voice teacher. 

Participation:

  1. Participants must have taken a private voice lesson at any point in their lifetime. Both professional and nonprofessional singers, students, and young professionals, 18 years or older, are invited to participate

  2. No compensation will be provided to participants.

This survey is anonymous and your name or the names of others will not be asked for nor gathered by these survey metrics. Any answer with identifying information will be deleted. If you would like to receive follow up information on the survey results you may follow a separate link at the end of the survey. The link will allow you to add your email address to a listserv for follow up news on the data that is found from these results. 

This survey should take no longer than 15 minutes and is approximately 20 questions. You do not have to answer every question and may choose to skip any question you do not wish to answer.  

As a content warning, please note that some of these questions pertain to consensual and non consensual physical touch, and sexual assault.

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This study has been reviewed and approved by the University of Southern California Institutional Review Board. 

INVESTIGATOR CONTACT INFORMATION  

If you have any questions about this study, please contact Maria Maxfield at marialin@usc.edu or Beatriz Ilari at ilari@usc.edu

IRB CONTACT INFORMATION 

If you have any questions about your rights as a research participant, please contact the University of Southern California Institutional Review Board at (323) 442-0114 or email irb@usc.edu.  

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