Behavioural hearing tactics: A controlled trial of a short treatment programme

Author(s): Green, M., Melin, L.

Journal/Book: Behav Res Ther. 1997; 35: The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, England OX5 1GB. Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd. 523-530.

Abstract: Nineteen elderly hearing impaired subjects participated in an experimental treatment study and received either behavioural hearing tactics or served as untreated controls. Treatment was supplied in the form of a self-help treatment manual supplied with telephone contacts during 4 consecutive weeks. The treatment manual included applied relaxation, communication strategies training, advice to relatives, information, and coping skills. Assessments (pre-post) were conducted in a structured interview measuring coping behaviour. In order to evoke behavioural compensation small acoustic provocations were included in the interview. Pre-post assessments also included questionnaires, daily registered hearing problems, and hours of daily hearing aid use. Results showed significant beneficial effects in favour of the treatment in terms of self-assessed problems and behaviour change.

Note: Article Andersson G, Uppsala Univ, Dept Psychol, Box 1225, S-75142 Uppsala, SWEDEN

Keyword(s): COMMUNICATION PROFILE; SCALE

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