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Teleaudiology practice in COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt and Saudi Arabia

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the audiologists’ attitudes and practice towards teleaudiology, as well as to assess the audiological services provided in Egypt and Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted among 112 audiologists who were recruited through conv...

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Autores principales: Elbeltagy, Reem, Waly, Eman H., Bakry, Huny M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Chinese PLA General Hospital 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8704730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34976033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joto.2021.12.002
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description OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the audiologists’ attitudes and practice towards teleaudiology, as well as to assess the audiological services provided in Egypt and Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted among 112 audiologists who were recruited through convenience sampling . Multinomial logistic regression was used to test the association between practice of tele audiology as a dependent variable and some independent variables. RESULTS: 25.4% of the studied sample were practicing tele audiology. Participants’ age and attitude toward telemedicine were the independent predictors of tele audiology practice at p value ≤ 0.05. CONCLUSION: The tele audiology practice is essential. Therefore, raising the knowledge of audiologist about the great value of practicing tele audiology is very important, infrastructure, equipment, and technology especially telecommunication should be improved and facilitated for both audiologist and patients.
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spelling pubmed-87047302021-12-28 Teleaudiology practice in COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt and Saudi Arabia Elbeltagy, Reem Waly, Eman H. Bakry, Huny M. J Otol Research Article OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the audiologists’ attitudes and practice towards teleaudiology, as well as to assess the audiological services provided in Egypt and Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted among 112 audiologists who were recruited through convenience sampling . Multinomial logistic regression was used to test the association between practice of tele audiology as a dependent variable and some independent variables. RESULTS: 25.4% of the studied sample were practicing tele audiology. Participants’ age and attitude toward telemedicine were the independent predictors of tele audiology practice at p value ≤ 0.05. CONCLUSION: The tele audiology practice is essential. Therefore, raising the knowledge of audiologist about the great value of practicing tele audiology is very important, infrastructure, equipment, and technology especially telecommunication should be improved and facilitated for both audiologist and patients. Chinese PLA General Hospital 2022-04 2021-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8704730/ /pubmed/34976033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joto.2021.12.002 Text en © 2021 PLA General Hospital Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Production and hosting by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8704730/
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