What’s in a name? A short survey about your hearing loss.
What words and phrases do you prefer to use when describing your hearing loss? What words do you dislike? As an organisation seeking to represent your views and opinions, Hearing Concern LINK would like to know what you think. Please take 10-15 minutes to complete our short survey.
Attention! Survey for individuals who are late deafened
This request is for individuals who are late deafened (between ages 18 - 65 years old) and would like the opportunity to be involved in research that focuses on coping and well-being. Oftentimes research focuses on the negative aspects of a culture. We are interested in a more complete approach to looking at people, and we have designed this study to focus on how people handle stress and well-being.
If you are interested in participating in a study about hearing loss and well-being, completing our survey will help us gather information about these topics.
Jill Meyer and Susan Kashubeck-West of the University of Missouri-St. Louis are asking you to participate in this research study. The results of the study may be published, but all information collected from you will be completely anonymous, so your name and information cannot be identified.
We will be giving away gift cards for participation.
The survey will take about 45 minutes to complete. You must be 18 years or older to participate. This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. You may withdraw from the study at any time without penalty.
We sincerely ask you to take the time to complete this survey, as hearing loss and deafness can occur to anyone throughout their lifetime. Thank you in advance for your time.
Contact details: Jill Meyer University of Missouri-Columbia 5400 Arsenal St. St. Louis, MO63139 p: 314.877.6403 F: 314.877.6405
Competition to find Europe’s top hearing care professional.
The competition encourages people in the UK and Europe with hearing problems to nominate a hearing care professional they believe goes beyond the call of duty to help patients.
This year’s competition was won by UK audiologist Robert Beiny, who was nominated for the award for the support he provided to a patient following a stroke.
We will soon be promoting details of the 2010 competition. Hopefully it may be of interest and suitable to some of your members, their friends and relatives.
Further info will soon be available at www.audiologistoftheyear.eu.
Or contact David Swinburne at: Mitchell Halton Watson Ltd 8 Higham Place Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AF Tel: 0191 233 1300 Fax: 0191 233 9530 Email:
Research conducted by the University of Greenwich
This which extends work done previously with LINK
The University of Greenwich have developed an online questionnaire concerning conversation tactics, open to anyone to complete, with or without a hearing impairment. Essentially, it is a questionnaire developed for use in research on Acquired Profound Hearing Loss, conducted with LINK. We found differences between couples who had adapted well to one partner’s loss of hearing and couples who had not (Hallam, R S, Ashton, P, Sherbourne, K, Gailey, L, Corney, (2007). Coping, conversation tactics and marital interaction in persons with acquired profound hearing loss (APHL): Correlates of distress, Audiological Medicine, 5, 103-111).
The reason we are extending this research is to examine the psychometric properties of the questionnaire in a larger sample and to find out whether the strategies are related to self-reported hearing impairment across a range of ages. If so, this would have implications for the known distressing effects of lesser degrees of hearing impairment in the general population. We will be gathering data for 4-5 months before analysing the results:
Attention! Survey for individuals who are late deafened
This request is for individuals who are late deafened (between ages 18 - 65 years old) and would like the opportunity to be involved in research that focuses on coping and well-being. Oftentimes research focuses on the negative aspects of a culture. We are interested in a more complete approach to looking at people, and we have designed this study to focus on how people handle stress and well-being.
If you are interested in participating in a study about hearing loss and well-being, completing our survey will help us gather information about these topics.
Jill Meyer and Susan Kashubeck-West of the University of Missouri-St. Louis are asking you to participate in this research study. The results of the study may be published, but all information collected from you will be completely anonymous, so your name and information cannot be identified.
We will be giving away gift cards for participation.
The survey will take about 45 minutes to complete. You must be 18 years or older to participate. This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. You may withdraw from the study at any time without penalty.
We sincerely ask you to take the time to complete this survey, as hearing loss and deafness can occur to anyone throughout their lifetime. Thank you in advance for your time.
Contact details:
Jill Meyer
University of Missouri-Columbia
5400 Arsenal St.
St. Louis, MO 63139
p: 314.877.6403 F: 314.877.6405
Competition to find Europe’s top hearing care professional.
The competition encourages people in the UK and Europe with hearing problems to nominate a hearing care professional they believe goes beyond the call of duty to help patients.
This year’s competition was won by UK audiologist Robert Beiny, who was nominated for the award for the support he provided to a patient following a stroke.
We will soon be promoting details of the 2010 competition. Hopefully it may be of interest and suitable to some of your members, their friends and relatives.
Further info will soon be available at www.audiologistoftheyear.eu.
Or contact David Swinburne at:
Mitchell Halton Watson Ltd
8 Higham Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8AF
Tel: 0191 233 1300 Fax: 0191 233 9530
Email:
