In pursuit of increasing the application of tele-audiology in South Africa: COVID-19 puts on the alert for patient site facilitator training.

IF 1 Q3 AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
Katijah Khoza-Shangase
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Background:  The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presented and highlighted new and unanticipated challenges to the provision of clinical services, raising an urgency for the application of different models of service delivery, including tele-audiology. In many tele-audiology encounters, a site facilitator is needed at the patient site to help with the hands-on aspects of procedures, and the implications of this requirement are significant for the resource-constrained African context.

Objectives:  The aim of this scoping review was to investigate published evidence on training provided to patient site facilitators (PSFs) for tele-audiology application to guide the South African audiology community in tele-audiology application initiatives.

Method:  Electronic bibliographic databases including Science Direct, PubMed, Scopus MEDLINE and ProQuest were searched to identify peer-reviewed publications, published in English, between 2017 and 2021 related to training of PSFs. The guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) were followed during the screening process as well as for illustrating the process.

Results:  Findings are discussed under four key themes: (1) type of tele-audiology and the implications thereof, (2) length of training and its implications, (3) diversity in the range of PSFs used and its implications for the training, and (4) heterogeneity in the training.

Conclusion:  The findings highlight important considerations for tele-audiology application within the African context, specifically decision-making around who can serve in the role of PSFs, as well as content and nature of training required, with implications for policy and regulations as well as human resource strategy. These findings are important for the COVID-19 pandemic era and beyond.

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为提高远程听力技术在南非的应用:COVID-19 为患者现场主持人培训发出警报。
背景: 2019 年冠状病毒疾病(COVID-19)给临床服务的提供带来并突显了新的、意料之外的挑战,迫切需要应用不同的服务提供模式,包括远程听力学。在许多远程听力会诊中,患者现场需要一名现场协助人员来帮助完成手术的实际操作,而这一要求对于资源有限的非洲来说意义重大: 此次范围界定审查旨在调查已发表的有关为远程听力应用的患者现场协助者(PSFs)提供培训的证据,以指导南非听力学界的远程听力应用计划: 方法:检索了包括 Science Direct、PubMed、Scopus MEDLINE 和 ProQuest 在内的电子文献数据库,以确定 2017 年至 2021 年间用英语发表的与培训 PSFs 相关的同行评审出版物。在筛选过程中遵循了系统综述和元分析的首选报告项目(PRISMA)指南,并对筛选过程进行了说明: 结果:研究结果在四个关键主题下进行了讨论:(1)远程听力学的类型及其影响;(2)培训时间及其影响;(3)使用的 PSF 范围的多样性及其对培训的影响;以及(4)培训的异质性: 研究结果强调了在非洲应用远程听力学的重要考虑因素,特别是围绕谁可以担任 PSF 角色的决策,以及所需培训的内容和性质,这对政策法规和人力资源战略都有影响。这些研究结果对 COVID-19 大流行时期及以后都很重要。
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