title: Behavioural hearing tactics: a controlled trial of a short treatment programme.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Andersson
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Melin
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006310:Hearing Aids / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D011304:Presbycusis / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011380:Programmed Instructions as Topic; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief; D016896:Treatment Outcome