Elbeltagy Reem, Waly Eman H, Bakry Huny M
Audiovestibular medicine, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt.
Health Communication Sciences Department. College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia.
J Otol. 2022 Apr;17(2):78-83. doi: 10.1016/j.joto.2021.12.002. Epub 2021 Dec 24.
To evaluate the audiologists' attitudes and practice towards teleaudiology, as well as to assess the audiological services provided in Egypt and Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A cross sectional study was conducted among 112 audiologists who were recruited through convenience sampling . Multinomial logistic regression was used to test the association between practice of tele audiology as a dependent variable and some independent variables.
25.4% of the studied sample were practicing tele audiology. Participants' age and attitude toward telemedicine were the independent predictors of tele audiology practice at p value ≤ 0.05.
The tele audiology practice is essential. Therefore, raising the knowledge of audiologist about the great value of practicing tele audiology is very important, infrastructure, equipment, and technology especially telecommunication should be improved and facilitated for both audiologist and patients.
评估听力学家对远程听力诊断的态度和实践情况，并评估在新冠疫情期间埃及和沙特阿拉伯所提供的听力诊断服务。
通过便利抽样对112名听力学家进行了一项横断面研究。采用多项逻辑回归来检验作为因变量的远程听力诊断实践与一些自变量之间的关联。
25.4%的研究样本在进行远程听力诊断实践。参与者的年龄和对远程医疗的态度是远程听力诊断实践的独立预测因素，p值≤0.05。
远程听力诊断实践至关重要。因此，提高听力学家对远程听力诊断实践巨大价值的认识非常重要，应为听力学家和患者改善并便利基础设施、设备以及技术，尤其是电信方面。
