听力损失
拉丁美洲
听力学
医学
助听器
康复
老年学
社会支持
感知
心理学
社会心理学
物理疗法
语言学
哲学
神经科学
作者
Eduardo Fuentes‐López,Adrián Fuente,Manuel Luna-Monsalve,Oscar M. Cañete
标识
DOI:10.1080/14992027.2022.2097133
摘要
This study aimed to evaluate the association between certain social determinants of health (i.e. educational level, income, and social support) and attitudes towards hearing loss and hearing aids among older adults with hearing loss fitted in a Latin American country.Older adults were asked about their attitudes towards hearing loss and hearing aids, years of formal education, income, social support, perception of having a hearing disability, and social pressure when using the hearing aid. To do so, we adapted the Attitudes towards Loss of Hearing Questionnaire (S-ALHQ) into Spanish. All the questionnaires were conducted as structured interview.Two hundred fifty-two older hearing aids users were recruited from a public hospital in Chile.The S-ALHQ showed adequate validity, along with good reliability. The multivariate models showed that educational level and social support were the social determinants of health negatively associated with the attitudes. Aided hearing disability and social pressure to use hearing aids were the co-variables associated with S-ALHQ scores.The study showed a significant relationship between specific social determinants of health and attitudes towards hearing loss and hearing aids. These attitudes should be considered when implementing rehabilitation programs for older adults with hearing loss.
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