Lucille Muir, Chi Yhun Lo, Frank A Russo, Gurjit Singh
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Abstract
Purpose: Hearing loss (HL) has been associated with declines for cognitive, physical, and other facets of health. Accordingly, hearing care practitioners (HCPs) may have a responsibility to address health domains beyond hearing. The current study compared client and HCP attitudes toward the role of HCPs in addressing such domains.
Method: One thousand four hundred one clients and 94 HCPs were recruited from Connect Hearing, a network of audiology clinics across North America. Clients and HCPs completed questionnaires focused on five health domains associated with HL (cognitive health, socioemotional health, physical health, mobility and balance, and overall wellness). Prior to their hearing care appointment, clients indicated their expectations of HCPs to address such domains. Concurrently, HCPs indicated their perceived ability to address the domains.
Results: HCP ability was significantly greater than client expectations within the domains of cognitive and socioemotional health, while client expectations were greater than HCP ability within the domains of physical health and mobility and balance.
Conclusions: HCPs report that they are generally capable of fulfilling their role and meeting their clients' expectations across health domains beyond hearing. Potential strategies to enhance alignment between client expectations and HCP ability are discussed. Such strategies include holistic and integrated care.
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Mission: AJA publishes peer-reviewed research and other scholarly articles pertaining to clinical audiology methods and issues, and serves as an outlet for discussion of related professional and educational issues and ideas. The journal is an international outlet for research on clinical research pertaining to screening, diagnosis, management and outcomes of hearing and balance disorders as well as the etiologies and characteristics of these disorders. The clinical orientation of the journal allows for the publication of reports on audiology as implemented nationally and internationally, including novel clinical procedures, approaches, and cases. AJA seeks to advance evidence-based practice by disseminating the results of new studies as well as providing a forum for critical reviews and meta-analyses of previously published work.
Scope: The broad field of clinical audiology, including audiologic/aural rehabilitation; balance and balance disorders; cultural and linguistic diversity; detection, diagnosis, prevention, habilitation, rehabilitation, and monitoring of hearing loss; hearing aids, cochlear implants, and hearing-assistive technology; hearing disorders; lifespan perspectives on auditory function; speech perception; and tinnitus.
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