Validation of teleaudiology hearing aid rehabilitation services for adults: a systematic review of outcome measurement tools

CONCLUSION: Although there is a set of suitable tools available to validate teleaudiology hearing aid rehabilitation services, none of them cover all the seven domains of the validation model used by this review and few are focussed on a specific domain. Further improvement and/or development of new tools to comprehensively validate these services is still necessary. At this stage, this still limits clinical audiology practice research, especially in teleaudiology.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONOutcome measurement tools are crucial for assessing the validity of hearing rehabilitation services.Findings of this study inform clinicians and researchers on how and what to assess and use to evaluate teleaudiology and standard hearing aid rehabilitation services.The use of the proposed validation framework may facilitate the standardisation of validation of both face-to-face and remotely delivered audiology rehabilitation services and improve consistency of methodology and reported real-world outcomes across studies and thus, the evidence.PMID:33787435 | DOI:10.1080/09638288.2021.1900928

Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - March 31, 2021 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Karina F M Tao Christopher G Brennan-Jones Dona M P Jayakody De Wet Swanepoel Gaetano Fava Sandra R Bellekom Robert H Eikelboom Source Type: research