Jennessa Rooker, PhD, RN, OCN, of the University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital, and colleagues conducted the study. They defined ototoxicity as \u201chearing loss and tinnitus\u201d and highlighted that it impacts over 50% of survivors of cancer who have received treatment with cisplatin-based chemotherapy.<\/p>\n
Dr. Rooker and colleagues emphasized that although ototoxicity has a significant impact on patients and that \u201cnational recommendations\u201d call for \u201croutine symptom monitoring,\u201d auditory screenings \u201cremain underutilized in oncology.\u201d<\/p>\n
They also explained their rationale for analyzing POC technology for administering auditory screenings, as these digital tools \u201coffer a promising solution to enhance ototoxicity detection during chemotherapy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cconvergent mixed-methods study\u201d examined \u201cthe usability of an iPad-based POC auditory screening system administered by oncology nurses.\u201d Eligible participants for the study included \u201cadult patients undergoing cisplatin chemotherapy treatment, and infusion nurses who were trained to use the SHOEBOX Ltd. iPad-based audiometry application.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Rooker and colleagues gathered quantitative and qualitative data, which were \u201ccollected with the System Usability Scale (SUS)\u201d and \u201csemi-structured interviews with eight patients and five nurses,\u201d respectively. They also leveraged thematic analysis to \u201ccode transcripts, with integration of results achieved through methodological triangulation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among five eligible patients, the \u201caverage SUS score\u201d was 84.5 (SD, 29.4), and among 5 eligible nurses, it was 92 (SD, 7.6), which the investigators explained indicated \u201chigh system usability.\u201d<\/p>\n
The results revealed that \u201cqualitative findings supported these results, with most patients describing the hearing screen as \u2018easy\u2019 and even gave them something to do during chemotherapy.\u201d Barriers to integration of the screening tool that were observed included \u201cenvironmental noise and patient complications related to treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Rooker and colleagues also reported oncology nurses\u2019 perceptions of the screening tool and highlighted that \u201cnurses found the screening system easy to implement and reported increased awareness of ototoxicity symptoms during chemotherapy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPOC auditory screening tools may enhance ototoxicity monitoring in cancer care by supporting early symptom recognition, fostering timely clinical response, and increasing patient and nurse engagement,\u201d investigators concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennessa Rooker, PhD, RN, OCN, of the University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital, and colleagues conducted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-598560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}