Cultural Adaptation of a Community-Based Hearing Health Intervention for Korean American Older Adults with Hearing Loss.

ABSTRACT: Although hearing loss is known to be associated with many adverse health outcomes in older adults, current hearing healthcare remains expensive and inaccessible to most ethnic minorities in the US. We aim to adapt an affordable, community-based hearing intervention to older Korean Americans (KAs), describe the cultural adaption process, and report pilot trial outcomes. We undertook the first four stages of Barrera & Castro's cultural adaptation framework: information gathering, preliminary adaptation design, adaptation test, and adaptation refinement in 15 older KAs with hearing loss and 15 of their communication partners. We developed a culturally adapted intervention consisting of provision of an affordable listening device and aural rehabilitative training. Six weeks post-intervention,

SUBMITTER: Choi JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6814539 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature