Middleton, Anna  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3103-8098, Turner, Graham H., Bitner-Glindzicz, Maria, Lewis, Peter, Richards, Martin, Clarke, Angus John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1200-9286 and Stephens, Dafydd
2010.
Preferences for communication in clinic from deaf people: a cross-sectional study.
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
16
(4)
, pp. 811-817.
10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01207.x
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Abstract
Aims and objectives To explore the preferences of deaf people for communication in a hospital consultation. Methods Design – cross-sectional survey, using a structured, postal questionnaire. Setting – survey of readers of two journals for deaf and hard of hearing people. Participants – 999 self-selected individuals with hearing loss in the UK, including those who use sign language and those who use speech. Main outcome measures – preferred mode of communication. Results A total of 11% of participants preferred to use sign language within everyday life, 70% used speech and 17% used a mixture of sign and speech.Within a clinic setting, 50% of the sign language users preferred to have a consultation via a sign language interpreter and 43% indicated they would prefer to only have a consultation directly with a signing health professional; 7% would accept a consultation in speech as long as there was good deaf awareness from the health professional, indicated by a knowledge of lip-reading/ speech-reading. Of the deaf speech users, 98% preferred to have a consultation in speech and of this group 71% indicated that they would only accept this if the health professional had good deaf awareness. Among the participants who used a mixture of sign language and speech, only 5% said they could cope with a consultation in speech with no deaf awareness whereas 46% were accepting of a spoken consultation as long as it was provided with good deaf awareness; 30% preferred to use an interpreter and 14% preferred to have a consultation directly with a signing health professional. Conclusions The hospital communication preferences for most people with deafness could be met by increasing deaf awareness training for health professionals, a greater provision of specialized sign language interpreters and of health professionals who can use fluent sign language directly with clients in areas where contact with deaf people is frequent.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Medicine |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | communication; deafness; hospital consultation; interpreter; sign language |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISSN: | 1356-1294 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2023 01:29 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/27028 |
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