Paediatric hearing aid management: a demonstration project for using virtual visits to enhance parent support

Muñoz, Karen F.; Kibbe, Kristin; Preston, Elizabeth; Caballero, Ana Luisa Godoy; Nelson, Lauri H.; White, Karl R.; Twohig, Michael P.

doi:10.1080/14992027.2016.1226521

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“…Parents, however, can encounter a multitude of challenges that interfere with hearing aid use, such as gaining confidence with new skills, managing difficult child behavior (e.g., removing hearing aids), and fear about how others may react to their child (Walker et al, 2013;Muñ oz et al, 2015;. Targeted support from their audiologist to purposefully address parents' needs can increase hours of hearing aid use (Muñ oz, Kibbe, et al, 2017).…”

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Counseling in Pediatric Audiology: Audiologists’ Perceptions, Confidence, and Training

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Pediatric audiologists are an important source of support for parents when a child is identified with hearing loss. As parents learn how to manage their child’s hearing loss they often need help navigating challenges that arise; however, audiologists may experience a variety of barriers implementing effective counseling strategies. Many internal and external barriers experienced by parents can be appropriately supported and navigated within audiology services.To investigate audiologists’ perceptions, training, and confidence related to counseling and to explore the influence of years practicing audiology and taking a counseling course on perceptions and confidence.A cross-sectional, population-based survey.Three hundred and fifty surveys were analyzed from pediatric audiologists across the U.S. Responses were received from 26 states and one U.S. territory.Data were collected through the mail and online. Descriptive and comparative statistics were used to analyze the information. Content analysis was performed to identify emergent themes from the responses to open-ended questions.Pediatric audiologists reported their perceptions about importance of counseling skills, challenges they encounter, their confidence in counseling, and how often they use the skills when needed in practice. Most audiologists (≥75%) felt it was very or extremely important to talk with parents about nine of the ten items (e.g., their [parents’] expectations). Three-fourth of the audiologists reported experiencing a moderate challenge or greater in knowing how to assess the presence of psychosocial challenges and in having enough time to address emotional needs. Many of the audiologists felt very or extremely confident in guiding parents in the development of an action plan (62%) and determining if parents have external barriers (60%). Approximately one-third or less of the participants reported performing any of the skills (e.g., determining if parent has external or internal barriers) ≥75% of the time, and a statistically significant difference was found with participants practicing ≤10 yr using the skills more frequently than participants practicing for ≥11 yr. In addition, there was a statistically significant difference between participants who had taken an audiology-specific counseling course and those who had not; those who had reported being more confident and using counseling skills more often than audiologists did not have a counseling course.This study found strong support for audiologist perceived importance of counseling; however, fewer audiologists reported confidence in their counseling skills and in using counseling skills. Counseling training was variable; audiologists would benefit from a more systematic approach to counseling instruction within graduate training.

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“…Overall participants had a positive reaction to remote care, and their satisfaction was greatly increased with the use of a web camera during the in-house appointment. A high-level of patient satisfaction was reported in other studies that employed remote hearing aid fitting, adjustment, and support (Penteado et al 2014;Novak et al 2016;Muñoz et al 2017).…”

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“…Even though most studies included in our review were focussed on adult hearing-aid users, similar teleaudiology services can be easily adopted to benefit CI users, and parents of children who are DHH. One study showed that using a virtual audiologist significantly improved the hearing aid wear time with children (Muñoz et al 2017).…”

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“…Finally, one study documented the benefit of virtual visits by an audiologist to monitor children's hearing aid use with datalogging and to help parents manage their child's hearing aids (Muñoz et al 2017). Result based on 6 months of longitudinal data collected on four families showed that the average hearing aid wear time increased from 7 to 10.5 h by the end of the study.…”

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“…Perspectives of providers, adult patients, parents of paediatric patients, and test facilitators related to tele-audiology services were explored in 22 studies. Two studies sought perspectives related to screening (Ciccia et al 2011;van Wyk et al 2019), four related to diagnostics (Hayes et al 2012;Dharmar et al 2016;Ramkumar et al 2016;Hatton et al 2019), six related to cochlear implants (Rodr ıguez et al 2010;Wasowski et al 2012;Hughes et al 2012;Kuzovkov et al 2014;Cullington and Agyemang-Prempeh 2017;Slager et al 2019), four related to hearing aids (Penteado et al 2014;Novak et al 2016;Muñoz et al 2017;Thrum, Driscoll, and Keogh 2018), and three related to rehabilitation (Br€ annstr€ om et al, 2016;Beukes et al 2017;Thrum, Driscoll, and Keogh 2018). Three studies sought perspectives of audiologists broadly related to tele-audiology services (Singh et al 2014;Eikelboom and Swanepoel 2016;Rashid et al 2019).…”

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