Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA.
Phonak, AG, Stäfa, Switzerland; Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada; Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
Hear Res. 2018 Nov;369:15-23. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2018.06.011. Epub 2018 Jun 19.
In a relatively short period of time, modern societies have been transformed by the ubiquitous uptake of advanced and portable mobile communication, computation, and sensors available on smartphones. Looking forward, it is anticipated that smartphones will have an increasingly important role in health management including the delivery of hearing healthcare and operation of hearing instruments.
This paper provides a brief overview of the role of smartphones in audiologic rehabilitation and hearing research and reports on the findings of a survey assessing attitudes of audiologists towards smartphone integration in hearing healthcare.
A total of 258 audiologists working in the United States completed the 10-item survey.
The key finding from the survey is that practitioners generally expressed a high willingness to integrate smartphone technology in patient care. Counterintuitively, it was observed that clinicians with the least number of years of experience had relatively more negative attitudes toward smartphone integration in hearing healthcare than clinicians with comparatively more years of experience.
The findings suggest that the attitudes of audiologists likely do not represent a barrier regarding smartphone integration in audiologic rehabilitation.
在相对较短的时间内，现代社会发生了转变，无处不在的先进便携移动通讯、智能手机上的计算和传感器得到普及。展望未来，智能手机将在健康管理中发挥越来越重要的作用，包括提供听力保健和操作听力仪器。
本文简要概述了智能手机在听力学康复和听力研究中的作用，并报告了一项评估听力学家对智能手机整合到听力保健中态度的调查结果。
共有 258 名在美国工作的听力学家完成了 10 项调查。
调查的主要发现是，从业者普遍表示非常愿意将智能手机技术整合到患者护理中。出人意料的是，观察到经验最少的临床医生对智能手机整合到听力保健中的态度比对经验相对较多的临床医生更为消极。
研究结果表明，听力学家的态度可能不会成为智能手机在听力学康复中的障碍。
