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Perceived Listening Difficulties of Adult Cochlear-Implant Users Under Measures Introduced to Combat the Spread of COVID-19.
- Source :
- Trends in Hearing; Jan-Dec2022, Vol. 26, p1-22, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, public-health measures introduced to stem the spread of the disease caused profound changes to patterns of daily-life communication. This paper presents the results of an online survey conducted to document adult cochlear-implant (CI) users' perceived listening difficulties under four communication scenarios commonly experienced during the pandemic, specifically when talking: with someone wearing a facemask, under social/physical distancing guidelines, via telephone, and via video call. Results from ninety-four respondents indicated that people considered their in-person listening experiences in some common everyday scenarios to have been significantly worsened by the introduction of mask-wearing and physical distancing. Participants reported experiencing an array of listening difficulties, including reduced speech intelligibility and increased listening effort, which resulted in many people actively avoiding certain communication scenarios at least some of the time. Participants also found listening effortful during remote communication, which became rapidly more prevalent following the outbreak of the pandemic. Potential solutions identified by participants to ease the burden of everyday listening with a CI may have applicability beyond the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the results emphasized the importance of visual cues, including lipreading and live speech-to-text transcriptions, to improve in-person and remote communication for people with a CI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PREVENTION of infectious disease transmission
COCHLEAR implants
MEDICAL masks
STATISTICS
AUDITORY perception
INTELLIGIBILITY of speech
VIDEOCONFERENCING
EXPERIENCE
COMMUNICATION
TELECOMMUNICATION
QUESTIONNAIRES
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
FACTOR analysis
RESEARCH funding
SOCIAL distancing
DATA analysis software
DATA analysis
THEMATIC analysis
FATIGUE (Physiology)
ANXIETY
PROMPTS (Psychology)
COVID-19 pandemic
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23312165
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Trends in Hearing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 171988429
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/23312165221087011