ArticleAmerican journal of audiology2022
Audiology, Medicine, and Pharmacy Interprofessional Preliminary Interviews and Discussions: Improving Hearing Health Care in Rural Alabama.
Article in American journal of audiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06864273 (Increasing Access to Hearing Healthcare), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers.
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Increasing Access to Hearing Healthcare: An Assessment of Pharmacy Technician Educational Training for the Provision of Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids in Rural Alabama and Mississippi Pharmacies
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- OTC Hearing Aids: Pharmacy, Audiology, and Team-Based Approaches to Education and Practice Models.Seminars in hearing · 2025Review
- An Innovative Approach for Increasing Access to Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids in Rural Communities of Alabama.Seminars in hearing · 2025Review
- An Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Clinical Trial in Rural Alabama: Project Design and Potential Implications for Pharmacy and Audiology Interprofessional Collaborations.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Hearing Loss in Children: Critical Medical Education Delivered as Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups · 2023Article
- An Assessment of Hearing Health Care Needs in Rural West Central and South Alabama.American journal of audiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeAccess and affordability of hearing health care varies depending on residency and individual financial means. Those living in rural areas have limited health care resources and experience higher levels of poverty compared to those living in urban regions. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of interprofessional collaboration among physicians and audiologists and pharmacists and audiologists to improve access and affordability of hearing health care in rural communities.
methodSixteen family physicians and medicine residents and 15 community pharmacists participated in the study. Physicians and residents completed an online survey to assess education regarding hearing health care and their understanding of hearing loss intervention. They also participated in small virtual focus group discussions. Pharmacists participated in virtual discussions based on guided questions.
resultsThe discussions with both physicians and pharmacists highlighted the need for more education, resources, and awareness of the negative impact of hearing loss on overall quality of life. Comments from these discussions were placed within the socio-ecological model of health behavior to increase understanding of hearing health behavior.
conclusionsIncreased collaboration among medical professionals has the potential to improve access to hearing health care for those living in audiologically underserved regions of the country. Further research will identify how to increase effective and sustainable hearing health care resources in rural communities.
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