Preventive Attitudes and Beliefs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals

Tamaskar, Prashant; Malia, Timothy; Stern, Carolyn; Gorenflo, Daniel W.; Meador, Helen E.; Zazove, Philip

doi:10.1001/archfami.9.6.518

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“…One example is their exclusion from preventive campaigns affecting health measures. It has already been reported that the deaf population lack a proper communication with medical doctors, are less knowledgeable about health risks, and, are less informed about sexual health and sexuality issues (Peinkofer, 1994;Harmer, 1999;Tamaskar et al, 2000;Heuttel and Rothstein, 2001;Steinberg et al, 2002;Bisol et al, 2008;Alquati Bisol et al, 2008;Zazove et al, 2009;Fernandes et al, 2009;Touko et al, 2010;Pereira and Fortes, 2010;Hoang et al, 2011;Jurberg et al, 2013).…”

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Access and comprehension of information by profound deaf youngsters in Brazil

Almeida¹,

Schiaffino²,

Rumjanek³

2014

J. Media Commun. Stud.

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The deaf community is less well informed compared to hearing groups and this communication difficulty hampers not only the acquisition of accurate general information but also puts the deaf community at a health risk. When profound deaf students were asked about their sources of information, a younger group mentioned friends and family, and an older group answered newspapers, television, and internet as their first sources of information. However, when this second group, aged between 17-36 years old, were evaluated in relation to their capacity of reading and understanding a short piece of news it became clear in many occasions that they ignored the meaning of more than 30% of the words. This older group of students could, however, discuss certain issues that had been extensively covered by the different media. This limited access to accurate information is a problem in issues involving sexual topics. Using the school system to cover this gap, it became clear that there was a lack of knowledge related to anatomy and basic physiologic concepts, as well as sexually transmitted diseases. The questions of virginity, homosexuality, pregnancy and drug abuse were also important discussion points. The need to overcome some of these problems led to the production of DVDs and illustrated magazines with the help of the young deaf community. The deaf community deserves being better informed and different approaches should be considered to overcome this problem.

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Access and comprehension of information by profound deaf youngsters in Brazil

Almeida¹,

Schiaffino²,

Rumjanek³

2014

J. Media Commun. Stud.

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“…[8][9][10][11] ASL is a complete language with unique idioms, syntax, and grammar. 12,13 Deaf persons see their deafness as desirable 3,4,14,15 and capitalize the D in deaf to differentiate themselves from deaf people who are not Deaf community members. Deaf persons use certified ASL interpreters, if available, when seeing physicians.…”

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“…16 Existing literature suggests that Deaf persons, like other minorities, 17 have unique health and cultural beliefs, and understanding of medical topics. 14,15,[18][19][20] They have poorer knowledge than hearing persons about preventive interventions, 14 such as AIDS avoidance, 15 and are less likely to understand common medical terms. 19 They also appear to utilize preventive interventions less, but the extent of this is unclear and needs further study.…”

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“…19 They also appear to utilize preventive interventions less, but the extent of this is unclear and needs further study. 14,21 It is more certain that they often experience suboptimal doctor-patient interactions with consequent misunderstandings about their disease or treatment. 3,6,15 Reasons for this are unclear, but probably involve language barriers and their isolation from the media.…”

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“…3,6,15 Reasons for this are unclear, but probably involve language barriers and their isolation from the media. 3,4,14 Deaf persons using interpreters during physician visits comply better with preventive recommendations. 21 However, unique issues exist with ASL interpreters, including confidentiality concerns, varying interpreter skills, alternative interpretations of English phrases, and frequent unavailabilitynot to mention the cost.…”

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Cancer Prevention Knowledge of People with Profound Hearing Loss

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BACKGROUND: Deaf persons, a documented minority population, have low reading levels and difficulty communicating with physicians. The effect of these on their knowledge of cancer prevention recommendations is unknown. METHODS:A cross-sectional study of 222 d/Deaf persons in Michigan, age 18 and older, chose one of four ways (voice, video of a certified American Sign Language interpreter, captions, or printed English) to complete a self-administered computer video questionnaire about demographics, hearing loss, language history, health-care utilization, and health-care information sources, as well as family and social variables. Twelve questions tested their knowledge of cancer prevention recommendations. The outcome measures were the percentage of correct answers to the questions and the association of multiple variables with these responses.RESULTS: Participants averaged 22.9% correct answers with no gender difference. Univariate analysis revealed that smoking history, types of medical problems, last physician visit, and women having previous cancer preventive tests did not affect scores. Improved scores occurred with computer use (p=0.05), higher education (p < 0.01) and income (p = 0.01), hearing spouses (p<0.01), speaking English in multiple situations (p<0.001), and in men with previous prostate cancer testing (p=0.04). Obtaining health information from books (p=0.05), physicians (p=0.008), nurses (p= 0.03) or the internet (p= 0.02), and believing that smoking is bad (p<0.001) also improved scores. Multivariate analysis revealed that English use (p=0.01) and believing that smoking was bad (p=0.05) were associated with improved scores. CONCLUSION:Persons with profound hearing loss have poor knowledge of recommended cancer prevention interventions. English use in multiple settings was strongly associated with increased knowledge.

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Preventive Attitudes and Beliefs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals

Cited by 74 publications

References 14 publications

Access and comprehension of information by profound deaf youngsters in Brazil

Access and comprehension of information by profound deaf youngsters in Brazil

Cancer Prevention Knowledge of People with Profound Hearing Loss

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