18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
Motivators and Barriers to Hearing Screening Follow-Up: Family and Stakeholder Perspectives
Loss to follow-up (LTFU) is a common issue within all areas of healthcare, with many common barriers identified across populations and conditions. Universal newborn hearing screenings have improved the identification of hearing loss through hospital screenings, however, there remains a gap in diagnosis due to LTFU. Published literature focuses on parent populations, individuals themselves, outreach professionals, medical professionals, and medical records when obtaining barriers and motivators related to LTFU. Published research has not made direct comparisons between parents and individuals versus the medical professionals and medical records. These comparisons have the possibility to highlight commonalities between populations, alongside misconceptions or misunderstandings between the different populations. This information may be useful in determining how to decrease the LTFU rates in Idaho. Surveys with open-ended questions will be mailed to Idaho families who have followed up with hearing evaluation, Idaho early intervention teachers and Idaho pediatric audiologists. Responses will be reviewed, categorized and compared to identify commonalities and differences. Both family and stakeholder survey responses will be used to brainstorm new solutions. Potential solutions for motivating more families to follow-up and for removing barriers to follow-up will be identified and shared.
- Participants will list the potential solutions to minimize loss to follow-up suggested by survey participants.
- Participants will describe the motivation and potential barriers identified by survey participants.
- Participants will compare the responses between groups of survey participants.
Poster:
18878_10363RachelKrauss.pdf
Presenter: Taylor Chaffin
Taylor graduated from Utah State University with a B.A. in Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education in 2015. She is currently a 3rd year student in the Doctor of Audiology program at Utah State Unviersity. Taylor was born and raised in Logan, Utah. Her interests include vestibular diagnostics, hearing aid programming and software, and auditory evoked potentials. Outside of school she enjoys spending time with family and friends.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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• Receives Other financial benefit for Other activities from Utah Regional Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (URLEND).
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Paige graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a B.S. in Audiology and Speech-Language Sciences with minors in Early Education, Special Education, and Elementary Education in 2013. She is currently a 2nd year Doctor of Audiology student at the University of Utah. Paige was born and raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her current interests include diagnostic evaluations, hearing conservation, and humanitarian audiology. She also enjoys spending time outside (hiking, camping, and kayaking), spending time with friends and families, and lazy days catching up on the newest books and television shows.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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• Receives Grants for Other activities from Utah Regional Leadership and Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Rachel is a 3rd year Doctor of Audiology student at Idaho State University. She completed her undergraduate degree with a Bachelor of Science in Communication Disorders in May of 2016. The first two years of her university career were completed at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with the remaining three years completed at Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota. She was born and raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. Her present audiologic interests include newborn hearing screenings, humanitarian audiology, hearing aid technology, auditory brainstem evoked potentials, and vestibular assessment. Outside of graduate school she enjoys reading, running, yoga, pilates, the outdoors, watching hockey and baseball, and baking.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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• Receives Grants for Other activities from URLEND.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Monique graduated from the University of Houston with a B.S. in Communication Disorders in 2014. She is currently a 2nd year Doctor of Audiology student at the University of Utah. Monique was born and raised in Houston, Texas. Her current interests include newborn hearing screenings, auditory brainstem evoked potentials, hearing aid programming, and humanitarian audiology. She also enjoys spending time with friends and family, hiking and camping, photography, cooking, and curling up with a good book or TV show.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Grants for Other activities from URLEND.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Dr. Mary M. Whitaker is a clinical professor at Idaho State University (ISU). She has been an audiologist for over 30 years. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech and Hearing Science from University of Utah, a Master of Science in Hearing Science at University of Arizona, and Educational Specialist in Special Education from Idaho State University, and a Doctor of Audiology degree from the University of Florida. Currently, she teaches coursework in educational audiology, genetics for health care professionals, and counseling in audiology. She is a clinical supervisor, the Externship Coordinator and the Program Director in Audiology. In her early career she worked in a rural outreach program providing audiological services to public health, migrant headstart, preschools and headstart programs. She was employed by the Pocatello, ID school district as an educational audiologist. Currently, she works in the ISU Hearing Clinic where she sees infants through adults.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.