Hearing health studies involving distance education and presential education

Abstract

The objective of this search was to present and analyze the studies related to the thematic Education for Hearing Health using presential education and distance education. For the selection were used the descriptors: “Hearing” AND “Distance Education”; “Hearing” AND “Telemedicine”; “Health education” AND “Audition” AND “Telemedicine” and its correspondents in English in: PubMed, Bireme, Embase, Web of Science, Scielo and Scopus. As inclusion criteria were considered articles in Portuguese, English or Spanish with methodologies of presential teaching or distance or presential and distance on Education Hearing Health. The exclusion criteria referred to literature reviews, and articles without the proposal focus. For the analysis, the following data were considered: the year of publication, scientific periodical, objective of the study, methods and results. A total of 626 papers were identified from 1984 to 2015, however, after the established filters, 12 articles were selected, two from Pubmed, four from Scopus, one from the Web of Science, four from the Scielo and one from Embase, from 2004 to 2014. This study presented 12 studies with the theme of Hearing Health Education that involve presential education and distance education with varied approaches, but in general the efficacy of distance teaching