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Hearing Loss: Effect on Hospice and Palliative Care Through the Eyes of Practitioners.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2019 April
CONTEXT: Discussions regarding values and goals of care are central to providing quality palliative care. An inability to hear during these sensitive discussions may significantly impair the quality of care provided, yet hearing loss (HL) is not formally addressed in these settings or in programs designed to assist practitioners gain advanced communication skills.
OBJECTIVE: To gain an understanding of hospice and palliative care practitioners' experiences with HL and its impact on the care provided.
METHOD: SurveyMonkey questionnaire eliciting whether and how HL impacted care provided with an open-ended question asking for descriptions of a situation where HL created a problem in communication with an older patient. Responses were analyzed using constant comparative techniques.
RESULTS: Of 510 respondents, 464 (91%) reported HL had some or great impact on the quality of care provided, 449 (88%) noted encountering a situation where HL impaired communication with an older adult, and 99 of these participants (22%) provided a specific example. The overarching theme was "Diagnostic and Treatment Uncertainty." Nonmutually exclusive categories underpinning this theme included the following: unable to get needed information, misinterpreting level of understanding, patient misunderstanding of instructions, and goals-of-care errors.
CONCLUSION: HL impacts the quality of care provided to persons with serious illness by disrupting the identification, assessment, and treatment of the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual symptoms an individual is experiencing. HL should be formally addressed in programs designed to develop skills in conducting sensitive conversations. Practitioners should screen for HL, use practices that facilitate comprehension, and use assistive listening devices as needed.
OBJECTIVE: To gain an understanding of hospice and palliative care practitioners' experiences with HL and its impact on the care provided.
METHOD: SurveyMonkey questionnaire eliciting whether and how HL impacted care provided with an open-ended question asking for descriptions of a situation where HL created a problem in communication with an older patient. Responses were analyzed using constant comparative techniques.
RESULTS: Of 510 respondents, 464 (91%) reported HL had some or great impact on the quality of care provided, 449 (88%) noted encountering a situation where HL impaired communication with an older adult, and 99 of these participants (22%) provided a specific example. The overarching theme was "Diagnostic and Treatment Uncertainty." Nonmutually exclusive categories underpinning this theme included the following: unable to get needed information, misinterpreting level of understanding, patient misunderstanding of instructions, and goals-of-care errors.
CONCLUSION: HL impacts the quality of care provided to persons with serious illness by disrupting the identification, assessment, and treatment of the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual symptoms an individual is experiencing. HL should be formally addressed in programs designed to develop skills in conducting sensitive conversations. Practitioners should screen for HL, use practices that facilitate comprehension, and use assistive listening devices as needed.
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