Exploring the feasibility of providing hearing screenings by a community learning disability health promotion team.
Why you should read this article: • To recognise how the identification of hearing loss in people with learning disabilities could be improved • To learn about a service improvement initiative that explored the provision of objective hearing screens for people with learning disabilities • To underst...
| Publicado en: | Learning Disability Practice Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 16 - 25 |
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Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The)
Apr2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=192941493&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 192941493 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 14658712 FTU jtl: Learning Disability Practice issn: 14658712 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2026 vid: 29 iid: 2 pid: 6040 pub: Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The) artinfo: ui: 192941493 192941493 192941493 10.7748/ldp.2025.e2273 192941493 ppf: 16 ppct: 9 formats: tig: atl: Exploring the feasibility of providing hearing screenings by a community learning disability health promotion team. aug: au: McShea, Lynzee Giles, Karen affil: Consultant clinical scientist (audiology), audiology department, Sunderland Royal Hospital, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland, England sug: subj: Health Services for Persons with Disabilities Persons with Disabilities Learning Disorders Hearing Screening Multidisciplinary Care Team Community Health Services Health Promotion Health Services Accessibility Human Male Female Adolescence Adult Middle Age Aged Aged, 80 and Over Pilot Studies Validation Studies Comparative Studies Descriptive Statistics Retrospective Design Record Review Referral and Consultation Audiology Audiologists Health Resource Utilization Acoustic Impedance Tests Otoacoustic Emissions, Evoked Otoscopy Self-Management Audiometry, Pure-Tone Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over Male Female ab: Why you should read this article: • To recognise how the identification of hearing loss in people with learning disabilities could be improved • To learn about a service improvement initiative that explored the provision of objective hearing screens for people with learning disabilities • To understand the role of learning disability health promotion teams in supporting access to hearing screens. There is a relatively high incidence of hearing loss in people with learning disabilities, but there are concerns that the annual health check this population receives may be ineffective in identifying hearing loss in them. A service improvement initiative was undertaken to explore the feasibility of providing community-based objective hearing screens for people with learning disabilities and to determine whether the annual health check, which involves a subjective hearing assessment, is effective in identifying hearing loss. The initiative was conducted in two phases. This article describes phase two, which examined the feasibility of using support workers from a community learning disability health promotion team (LDHPT) to provide hearing screens. The results were compared with those of phase one, which involved audiologists undertaking the hearing screens. Overall, the results of the service improvement initiative suggest that objective hearing screens should be provided for people with learning disabilities. In addition, the involvement of the LDHPT can improve service users' access to audiology diagnostic services, therefore reducing the healthcare inequities experienced by this group. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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