"Close to My Community": A Qualitative Study of Community Health Worker-Supported Teleaudiology Hearing Aid Services.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Given well-documented disparities in rural and minority communities, alternative service delivery models that help improve access to hearing care are needed. This article reports on a study of older Latino adults with hearing loss who received hearing aid services with Community Health Workers (CHWs) providing support via teleaudiology. The present study used qualitative data to explore perceptions of this novel service delivery model.

Design

Participants completed semistructured interviews related to their experiences in the intervention approximately 17 weeks after the hearing aid fitting appointment. Two coders independently coded the data, using an iterative deductive and inductive thematic analysis approach. Inter-rater reliability was good (κ = 0.80).

Res

SUBMITTER: Coco L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11333189 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep-Oct 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature