&lt;p&gt;Improving communication with patients who have a hearing
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Newton, Valerie; Shah, Seema Rupani

doi:10.56920/cehh.99

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“…This behavior was also reported in a previous study in which DHH patients depended on their friends and children for help with medications and tended to avoid direct interactions with pharmacists [ 17 ]. This is an important finding, since literature indicates the poor health literacy of deaf patients to be associated with inadequate communication with their healthcare providers, which negatively affects their overall health [ 3 – 5 ].…”

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“…Studies have shown that deaf people have low health literacy, owing to communication barriers with healthcare providers [ 3 ]. In addition, studies have indicated that this communication barrier negatively affects deaf people’s physical and mental health, as they can face prolonged or unnecessary illnesses due to inadequate communication with their healthcare providers [ 4 , 5 ].…”

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Pharmacists’ communication skills with deaf and hard of hearing patients: A needs assessment

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Objectives Assess the Saudi pharmacists’ perceptions of their responsibilities toward deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) patients, their current practices, and their need for communication skills training. Study design A prospective cross-sectional study. Methods Pharmacist and deaf communication questionnaire (PDCQ), a newly structured, validated, pilot-tested, and self-administered online questionnaire, was used to collect data. A total of 303 pharmacists working in the Saudi community and outpatient pharmacies participated in the study. Data were analyzed using SPSS and descriptive statistics were used to describe the study findings. These included Mean ± standard deviation (SD), frequency, and Chi-square tests. Results Most pharmacists perceived that DHH patients had difficulty correctly understanding their medication instructions. Writing was the most common method used for communication, whereas the unavailability of interpreters and the low reading levels of these patients were the highest barriers to communication. Moreover, most pharmacists believed that they should be skilled at communicating with DHH patients. However, many pharmacists felt that they are not well prepared to communicate with these patients. Conclusion This research highlights the poor skills, low confidence and low knowledge Saudi pharmacists have about their legal obligations towards DHH patients. In addition, there is paucity of sufficient resources to help pharmacists improve their communication with such patients.

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“…27 The lack of or ineffective EMS provider-patient communication in unstable conditions and limited time can lead to unwanted outcomes as the possibility of medical errors or delayed intervention increases. [30][31][32] Poor communication with deaf patients can interfere with the quality of provided care and threaten patients' safety. 33,34 The global number of people with hearing loss will increase parallel with an increasing population age.…”

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Raising Awareness of Hearing and Communication Disorders Among Emergency Medical Services Students: Are Knowledge Translation Workshops Useful?

Al-Wathinani

Al-Sudairi

Alhallaf

et al. 2022

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Objective: In numerous countries, emergency medical services (EMS) students receive curriculum training in effective patient–provider communication, but most of this training assumes patients have intact communication capabilities, leading to a lack of preparedness to interact with patients, who have communication disorders. In such cases, first responders could end up delivering suboptimal care or possibly wrong procedures that could harm the disabled person. Method: A quasi-experimental design (pretest–posttest) was used to assess the knowledge of EMS students both before and after a translation workshop on how to deal with patients who have hearing and communication disorders during emergencies. Comparisons between pretest and posttest scores were examined using the Wilcoxon signed rank test. The level of knowledge scores was compared before and after the workshop. Results: The results indicated that EMS students’ scores improved after the workshop. There was a 0.763 increase in the average score of knowledge level. The results of this study show that knowledge translation workshops are a useful intervention to enhance the level of knowledge among EMS students when interacting with hearing and communication patients. Conclusions: Our results show that such training workshops lead to better performance. Communication is a vital element in a medical encounter between health care providers and patients at all levels of health care but specifically in the prehospital arena. Insufficient or lack of communication with a vulnerable population, who may suffer from various disabilities, has a significant impact on the outcome of treatment or emergency management.

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“…1,2 The term deaf; however, is applied to people with mostly profound hearing loss, which implies very little or no hearing. 3 Hearing impairment affects illness in hearing impaired individuals 5 when compared to those without it. The difficulty in performing adequate oral hygiene practices, accessibility to oral care and dearth of awareness due to communication barriers has also been related to increased burden of oral diseases in this group of population.…”

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Oral hygiene status in individuals with hearing difficulties: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Bhadauria

Purohit

Agarwal

et al. 2023

Special Care in Dentistry

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ObjectivesMost studies focusing on oral hygiene status in hearing impaired individuals are cross‐sectional and focus on specific populations. A comprehensive literature search and evidence‐based analysis was carried out to assess the oral hygiene status in this special group of population.MethodsSearches were conducted in four databases with no restriction on publication date. Cross‐sectional and comparative cross‐sectional studies assessing the oral hygiene status and periodontal status of hearing impaired individuals using standardized evaluation criteria were included. Study selection, data extraction, and assessment of bias were carried out by four reviewers and oral hygiene, plaque, and gingival status were assessed. The risk of bias assessment was carried out by New Castle Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale. 29 relevant publications that fulfilled the eligibility criteria were included in the systematic review whereas six studies each assessing oral hygiene and plaque status and five studies evaluating the gingival status were included in the Meta‐analysis.ResultsEight thousand eight hundred and ninety (8890) potentially relevant references were identified in the systematic literature search. The overall analysis of the included studies revealed a mean oral hygiene index score of 1.60 (95% CI 0.91‐2.30), Gingival Index scores 1.27 (95% CI 1.02–1.51), and Plaque Index score 0.99 (95% CI 0.75–2.30) among the hearing impaired individuals.ConclusionThe present study reported fair oral hygiene, fair plaque status, and moderate gingivitis among the hearing impaired individuals.

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Pharmacists’ communication skills with deaf and hard of hearing patients: A needs assessment

Pharmacists’ communication skills with deaf and hard of hearing patients: A needs assessment

Raising Awareness of Hearing and Communication Disorders Among Emergency Medical Services Students: Are Knowledge Translation Workshops Useful?

Oral hygiene status in individuals with hearing difficulties: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

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