Hearing Impairment and Health-Related Quality of Life: The Blue Mountains Hearing Study

Chia, Ee Munn; Wang, Jie Jin; Rochtchina, Elena; Cumming, R. G.; Newall, Philip; Mitchell, Paul

doi:10.1097/aud.0b013e31803126b6

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“…It is encouraging that psychosocial talk was a focus of one quarter of the history taking phases observed in the current study, given that psychosocial talk is often not a focus of physician-patient interactions in primary health care [14,[30][31][32]. However, given that adults with acquired hearing loss typically attend an audiology appointment because they are experiencing communication difficulties [17,33] and thus may have experienced changes to their lifestyle (e.g., withdrawing from social situations) and/or general well-being [34][35][36][37][38][39], one would expect a greater proportion of audiology appointments to begin with psychosocial interaction.…”

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Audiologist-patient communication profiles in hearing rehabilitation appointments

Meyer

Barr

Khan

et al. 2017

Patient Education and Counseling

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Highlights Audiology consultations remain clinician-centred.  Three-quarters of appointments began with a biopsychosocial interaction.  All appointments ended with a biomedical interaction dominated by hearing aid talk.  Audiologist-patient communication was not associated with decision to trial HAs. Audiologist-patient communication in hearing rehabilitation 2 AbstractObjective. To profile the communication between audiologists and patients in initial appointments on a biomedical-psychosocial continuum; and explore the associations between these profiles and 1) characteristics of the appointment and 2) patients' decisions to pursue hearing aids.Methods. Sixty-three initial hearing assessment appointments were filmed and audiologistpatient communication was coded using the Roter Interaction Analysis System. A hierarchical cluster analysis was conducted to profile audiologist-patient communication, after which regression modelling and Chi-squared analyses were conducted.Results. Two distinct audiologist-patient communication profiles were identified during both the history taking phase (46 = biopsychosocial profile, 15 = psychosocial profile) and diagnosis and management planning phase (45 = expanded biomedical profile, 11 = narrowly biomedical profile). Shorter appointments were significantly more likely to be associated with a narrowly biomedical interaction during the diagnosis and management planning phase. No significant associations were found between audiologist-patient communication profile and patients' decisions to pursue hearing aids. Conclusion.Initial audiology consultations appear to remain clinician-centred. Three quarters of appointments began with a biopsychosocial interaction; however, 80% ended with an expanded biomedical interaction.Practice Implications. Findings suggest that audiologists could consider modifying their communication in initial appointments to more holistically address the needs of patients.

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Audiologist-patient communication profiles in hearing rehabilitation appointments

Meyer

Barr

Khan

et al. 2017

Patient Education and Counseling

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“…18 Despite the success of these therapies, partially restored listening performance does not match the performance of the intact auditory system; even mild hearing loss can have a devastating impact on quality of life, causing depression, social isolation, poor physical functioning, and decreased self-sufficiency. 19 A majority of students reported using a portable entertainment device with headphones and listening for at least 3 hours/day, whereas just less than 50% knowingly listen at levels that they consider somewhat loud or loud. In addition, 77% of students reported some level of concern about the possibility of hearing damage from using PMPs.…”

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Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: An Assessment of Portable Entertainment Player Use and Hearing Acuity in a Community Sample

Shah

Gopal²,

Reis³

et al. 2009

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

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Background: Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a common but preventable disability. The purpose of this study was to assess the understanding of NIHL in a community sample in the context of exposure to portable music players, including MP3 players, and personal hearing acuity as tested with the Welch Allyn Audioscope 3.Methods: A cross-sectional convenience sample of 94 adults (18 to 65 years old) at a university recreation center completed an analysis of personal use of portable digital music players (MP3 players), concerns about hearing loss, and a 3-dB-level hearing test at 4 levels of speech frequency in a low ambient noise setting.Results: The majority of participants (85%) were concerned about hearing loss, willing to protect their hearing with lower volume (77%), had little measurable hearing loss but were exposed to longer and louder periods of noise than other national samples, and mistakenly felt that NIHL is a medically reversible condition. Many (40%) also wanted their family medicine physician to be more concerned about their hearing.Conclusions

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“…Hearing impairment is a prevalent health condition (Mathers et al, 2003) and is associated with poorer quality of life (Chia et al, 2007). However, hearing-aid uptake is low and up to 40% of hearing aids dispensed are not used regularly (Smeeth et al, 2002).…”

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Hearing help-seeking and rehabilitation: Perspectives of adults with hearing impairment

Laplante-Lévesque

Knudsen

Preminger

et al. 2011

International Journal of Audiology

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Hearing Impairment and Health-Related Quality of Life: The Blue Mountains Hearing Study

Abstract: This study quantifies the associated disease burden of age-related hearing impairment on health-related quality of life in a population-based cohort of older persons.

Cited by 433 publications

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Audiologist-patient communication profiles in hearing rehabilitation appointments

Audiologist-patient communication profiles in hearing rehabilitation appointments

Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: An Assessment of Portable Entertainment Player Use and Hearing Acuity in a Community Sample

Hearing help-seeking and rehabilitation: Perspectives of adults with hearing impairment

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