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Raising Awareness of Hearing and Communication Disorders Among Emergency Medical Services Students: Are Knowledge Translation Workshops Useful?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2022

Ahmed M. Al-Wathinani Open the ORCID record for Ahmed M. Al-Wathinani [Opens in a new window] ,
Nora F. Al-Sudairi ,
Mohammed A. Alhallaf ,
Nawaf A. Albaqami ,
Abdullah A. Alghamdi ,
Satu Turunen-Taheri ,
Amir Khorram-Manesh Open the ORCID record for Amir Khorram-Manesh [Opens in a new window] ,
Mohammad Aljuaid Open the ORCID record for Mohammad Aljuaid [Opens in a new window]  and
Krzysztof Goniewicz Open the ORCID record for Krzysztof Goniewicz [Opens in a new window]
Ahmed M. Al-Wathinani*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz College Emergency Medical Services, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Nora F. Al-Sudairi
Affiliation:
Department of Rehabilitation-Speech and Hearing Program, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Mohammed A. Alhallaf
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz College Emergency Medical Services, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Nawaf A. Albaqami
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz College Emergency Medical Services, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Abdullah A. Alghamdi
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medical Services, Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz College Emergency Medical Services, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Satu Turunen-Taheri
Affiliation:
Department of CLINTEC, Division of Audiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Audiology and Neurotology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Amir Khorram-Manesh
Affiliation:
Department of Surgey, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Sweden Gothenburg Emergency Medical Research Group (GEMREG), Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Mohammad Aljuaid
Affiliation:
Department of Health Administration College of Business Administration, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Krzysztof Goniewicz
Affiliation:
Department of Security, Polish Air Force University, Dęblin, Poland
*
Corresponding author: Ahmed M. Al-Wathinani, Email: ahmalotaibi@ksu.edu.sa.
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Abstract

Objective:

In numerous countries, emergency medical services (EMS) students receive curriculum training in effective patient–provider communication, but most of this training assumes patients have intact communication capabilities, leading to a lack of preparedness to interact with patients, who have communication disorders. In such cases, first responders could end up delivering suboptimal care or possibly wrong procedures that could harm the disabled person.

Method:

A quasi-experimental design (pretest–posttest) was used to assess the knowledge of EMS students both before and after a translation workshop on how to deal with patients who have hearing and communication disorders during emergencies. Comparisons between pretest and posttest scores were examined using the Wilcoxon signed rank test. The level of knowledge scores was compared before and after the workshop.

Results:

The results indicated that EMS students’ scores improved after the workshop. There was a 0.763 increase in the average score of knowledge level. The results of this study show that knowledge translation workshops are a useful intervention to enhance the level of knowledge among EMS students when interacting with hearing and communication patients.

Conclusions:

Our results show that such training workshops lead to better performance. Communication is a vital element in a medical encounter between health care providers and patients at all levels of health care but specifically in the prehospital arena. Insufficient or lack of communication with a vulnerable population, who may suffer from various disabilities, has a significant impact on the outcome of treatment or emergency management.

Keywords

communication disordersEMShearing lossstudentsworkshops
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 17 , 2023 , e163
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc

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