Perceived listening ability and hearing loss: Systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hearing loss (HL) can affect communication in complex ways. Understanding how adults with HL reflect on and conceptualise the way they listen (metacognition) is required if interventions, and the outcome measures used to evaluate them, are to address barriers to functional communication arising from HL.

Objectives

This study describes how adults with HL experience and report the processes, behaviours, and components of listening, as presented in published studies.

Design

Systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.

Methods

Systematic searches identified English-language, peer-reviewed journal articles reporting the results of qualitative or mixed-methods studies of adults' with HL perceived listening abilities. Medline, PsychInfo, Web

SUBMITTER: Hughes SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9595527 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature