Publications by authors named "Raphaelle Koerber"
Background: Older adults with hearing loss struggle to communicate with care providers and experience higher mortality rates when hospitalized (Genther et al., 2015), even after controlling for age and comorbidities. Personal hearing amplifiers (PHAs), (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study evaluated the effectiveness of the reverse stethoscope technique in improving speech intelligibility. In this technique, a clinician places the earpieces of their stethoscope into the ears of a hearing-impaired patient and speaks into the chest piece.
Methods: The International Speech Test Signal was presented to four Littman stethoscope models and a Pocketalker personal voice amplifier using an Audioscan hearing instrument test box.
Objective: In response to modest outcomes in the field of vocational audiological rehabilitation, we examined the mechanism by which a group of workers with hearing challenges engaged with such a program.
Design: Telepractice nurses with hearing challenges participated in a four-session, online course teaching evidence-based communication strategies. Using multiple case study methodology, we collected ethnographic interviews, surveys, and discussion-forum comments before, during, and after the program.
Objective: A scoping review was undertaken to identify strategies which increase telephone accessibility for workers with hearing loss.
Design: The scoping review protocol outlined by the Joanna Brigg's Institute was used. Terms relating to hearing loss, telephones, and management strategies were searched in CINAHL, MEDLINE, and Web of Science.
Objective: Participation in the labour force with a hearing impairment presents a number of challenges. This study describes how Canadian newspapers represent workers with hearing loss.
Design: Taking a critical framing theory approach, thematic analysis was performed through coding relevant articles, abstracting and hierarchically categorising themes.