Raising Awareness of Hearing and Communication Disorders Among Emergency Medical Services Students: Are Knowledge Translation Workshops Useful?
Ahmed M Al-WathinaniNora F Al-SudairiMohammed A AlhallafNawaf A AlbaqamiAbdullah A AlghamdiSatu Turunen-TaheriAmir Khorram-ManeshMohammed M AljuaidKrzysztof GoniewiczPublished in: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness (2022)
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.