title: Conceptions of working life among employees with mild-moderate aided hearing impairment: A phenomenographic study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim was to explore the conceptions of working life among employees with mild-moderate aided hearing impairment (HI).
  
  
  METHODS
  This study has a descriptive design, in which data was collected by means of semi-structured interviews. All interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. The text was analysed in accordance with the phenomenographic approach.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifteen participants with mild-moderate aided HI were recruited to the current study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The analysis of the interviews resulted in four main categories describing the participants' conceptions of working life: (1) diffiiculties in daily work, (2) communication strategies, (3) facilitating factors in work environment, and (4) impact on daily life. The four identified descriptive categories show that the effects of HI on the lives of working adults generate far-reaching psychosocial consequences for the individual.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study demonstrates that difficulties and impact of having a HI interact with strategies used by the individual and contextual facilitators made in the work environment. We argue that there is a need for extensive services in aural rehabilitation for this population. This includes identifying the need of assistive listening devices, teaching the individual with HI about communication strategies and informing stakeholders about the consequence of having a HI.
authors.affiliation: a Linnaeus Centre HEAD, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University , Sweden.|b Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning , Linköping University , Sweden.
authors.forename: Håkan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hua
authors.affiliation: a Linnaeus Centre HEAD, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University , Sweden.|c School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University , Sweden.|d Audiological Research Centre, Örebro University Hospital , Sweden.
authors.forename: Agneta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anderzén-Carlsson
authors.affiliation: a Linnaeus Centre HEAD, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University , Sweden.|c School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University , Sweden.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Widén
authors.affiliation: a Linnaeus Centre HEAD, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University , Sweden.|b Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning , Linköping University , Sweden.
authors.forename: Björn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lyxell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007858:Learning; D008875:Middle Aged; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Conceptions; employees; fatigue; hearing impairment; labor market; noise; phenomenography; withdrawal