Remote hearing screenings via telehealth in a rural elementary school.
PURPOSE: Telehealth (telepractice) is the provision of health care services using telecommunications. Telehealth technology typically has been employed to increase the level of health care access for consumers living in rural communities. In this way, audiologists can use telehealth to provide servi...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Audiology Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 114 - 123 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Dec2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105603509&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105603509 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10590889 5KS jtl: American Journal of Audiology issn: 10590889 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2008 vid: 17 iid: 2 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association place: Rockville, Maryland artinfo: ui: 105603509 2010142130 10.1044/1059-0889(2008/07-0008) NLM18840705 105603509 ppf: 114 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Remote hearing screenings via telehealth in a rural elementary school. aug: au: Lancaster P Krumm M Ribera J Klich R affil: Hearing and Balance Centers at the Elks, Nampa, ID sug: subj: Hearing Disorders Prevention and Control Hearing Screening In Infancy and Childhood Remote Consultation Rural Areas School Health Services Telehealth Acoustic Impedance Tests Audiometry, Pure-Tone Child Data Analysis Software Descriptive Statistics Female Hearing Disorders Diagnosis Male Models, Theoretical Otoscopy Pilot Studies Schools, Elementary Sensitivity and Specificity Software User-Computer Interface Utah Videorecording Human Child: 6-12 years Female Male ab: PURPOSE: Telehealth (telepractice) is the provision of health care services using telecommunications. Telehealth technology typically has been employed to increase the level of health care access for consumers living in rural communities. In this way, audiologists can use telehealth to provide services in the rural school systems. This is important because school hearing screening programs are the foundation of educational audiology programs. Therefore, the goal of this study was to determine the feasibility of providing hearing screening services by telehealth technology to school-age children. METHOD: Hearing screening services-including otoscopy, pure-tone, and immittance audiometry-were conducted on 32 children in 3rd grade attending an elementary school in rural Utah. Each child received 1 screening on-site and another through telehealth procedures. RESULTS: Immittance and otoscopy results were identical for on-site and telehealth screening protocols. Five children responded differently to pure-tone stimuli presented by the telehealth protocol than by the on-site protocol. However, no statistically significant difference was found for pure-tone screening results obtained by telehealth or on-site screening procedures (binomial test, p = .37). Likewise, overall screening results obtained by traditional and telehealth procedures were not statistically significant (binomial test, p = .37). CONCLUSION: The results of this study suggest that school hearing screenings may be provided using telehealth technology. This study did find that 5 students performed differently to pure-tone screenings administered by the telehealth protocol in contrast to on-site hearing screening services. Further research is necessary to identify factors leading to false responses to pure-tone hearing screening when telehealth technology is used. In addition, telehealth hearing screening protocols should be conducted with participants of different age groups and experiencing a wide range of hearing loss to further clarify the value of telehealth technology. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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