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Addressing Age-Related Hearing Changes, Vennela Pandaraboyina
Addressing Age-Related Hearing Changes, Vennela Pandaraboyina
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
UVM Milton Family Medicine practice has a significant patient population of elderly adults who are experiencing age-related hearing loss. Age related hearing loss is very common in people over 65 – it’s the third most common chronic physical condition in the US. However due to both social stigma and a lack of health literacy many of them are not having their hearing changes addressed with appropriate audiology assessments and hearing aids. This project sought to further quantify the patient population in Milton with unaddressed age-related hearing loss by talking to local physicians and deaf, deaf/blind, and hard of hearing advocates. …
Evaluating Patient Literacy To Improve Health Outcomes In Milton, Vt, Lindsay R. Miller
Evaluating Patient Literacy To Improve Health Outcomes In Milton, Vt, Lindsay R. Miller
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Health literacy is one aspect of overall literacy that has an enormous impact on patient health outcomes, including knowledge of disease, health markers, general health status, and number of hospitalizations, among others. More than 1/3 of the US population has basic or below basic health literacy status. In Chittenden County, diabetes and heart disease deaths are higher than the state average; these diseases require complex personal care and management. Health care providers working at Milton Family Practice in Milton, VT, often noted that patients were often unwilling to disclose literacy issues and there were often problems communicating instructions to patients …
Improving Awareness Of Low Health Literacy And Strategies To Overcome It, Sherilyn Destefano
Improving Awareness Of Low Health Literacy And Strategies To Overcome It, Sherilyn Destefano
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
This project outlines an intervention delivered at a family medicine residency program in Bangor, ME to increase residents' knowledge of the impact of low health literacy and supply them with communication techniques to help improve patient understanding. Over 36% of U.S. adults have basic or below basic health literacy skills and low health literacy has been shown to lead to poorer health outcomes, increased health disparities, and increased cost. Our presentation focused on communication techniques like Teach-Back, an evidence-based strategy that assesses patient understanding by asking patients to repeat back healthcare instructions in their own words, that has been shown …
Bringing Diabetes Education To Your Home Via Your Smart Phones, Nazey Z. Gulec
Bringing Diabetes Education To Your Home Via Your Smart Phones, Nazey Z. Gulec
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
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