Health Behavior and Motivational Engagement Models Can Explain and Modify Teleaudiology Uptake.
Am J Audiol
; 31(3S): 1043-1051, 2022 Sep 21.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2008340
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
The remote delivery of health care services (i.e., telehealth) has steadily increased across the health care landscape over the past decade with a dramatic increase following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote audiology delivery (i.e., teleaudiology), by contrast, has traditionally been characterized by relatively low utilization. While teleaudiology services increased during the COVID-19 lockdown period, most of those services were generally limited to follow-up care and postfitting consultations to existing patients. Furthermore, there is reason to believe that, despite the benefits that remote care provides, the use of teleaudiology services has decreased as in-person care has increased following the lifting of mandatory COVID-related lockdowns. The purpose of this viewpoint article is to posit that existing theories of health behavior, usually applied to patient-specific behaviors (e.g., hearing aid uptake) may explain the reluctance of audiologists to "uptake" a teleaudiology model of care. We also explore the potential of motivational engagement strategies as a means to allow audiologists to examine their sources of ambivalence as they consider adopting a remote service-delivery model.CONCLUSIONS:
Health behavior models such as the Health Belief, Transtheoretical, and capability, opportunity, motivation, and behavior (COM-B) models represent theories that may help to explain audiologists' resistance to adopting remote delivery services. Motivational engagement strategies, such as decisional balance, can provide useful tools for audiologists to examine their attitudes toward the adoption of teleaudiology.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Audiology
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Am J Audiol
Journal subject:
Audiology
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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