Publications by authors named "Mahmoud Hammady"
Objective: Current clinical assessments for Hearing Loss (HL) are often limited to controlled laboratory settings in which a narrow spectrum of hearing difficulties can be assessed. A majority of the daily life challenges caused by HL cannot be measured in clinical methodologies. To screen the individuals' needs and limitations, a questionnaire named the HEAR-COMMAND tool was developed and qualitatively validated through an international collaboration, aligning with the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Framework (ICF) Core Sets for Hearing Loss.
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- The goal of the study is to create a new questionnaire to shift hearing healthcare from a biomedical model to a biopsychosocial approach, following the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) framework.
- A collaborative team from Germany, the USA, the Netherlands, and Egypt developed this questionnaire, which offers versions in English, German, and Arabic, and involved a pilot validation study with 109 participants from the three countries to refine item language.
- The resulting questionnaire contains 120 items that address functioning, hearing status, and personal factors, covering a substantial portion of ICF categories related to hearing loss, thereby linking health with contextual influences and improving hearing healthcare practices.