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TY - JOUR
T1 - Identifying barriers and facilitators of hearing protection use in early-career musicians
T2 - a basis for designing interventions to promote uptake and sustained use
AU - Couth, Samuel
AU - Loughran, Michael
AU - Plack, Christopher
AU - Moore, David
AU - Munro, Kevin
AU - Ginsborg, Jane
AU - Dawes, Piers
AU - Armitage, Christopher
PY - 2022/6/30
Y1 - 2022/6/30
N2 - ObjectiveThe current study aimed to: i) determine the patterns of hearing protection device (HPD) use in early-career musicians, ii) identify barriers to and facilitators of HPD use, and iii) use the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) to develop an intervention to increase uptake and sustained use of HPDs.DesignA mixed-methods approach using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews.Study sampleEighty early-career musicians (age range = 18–26 years; women n = 39), across all categories of musical instrument.Results42.5% percent of participants reported using HPDs at least once a week, 35% less than once a week, and 22.5% reported never using HPDs for music-related activities. Six barriers and four facilitators of HPD use were identified. Barriers include the impact of HPDs on listening to music and performing, and a lack of concern about noise exposure. Barriers/facilitators were mapped onto the Theoretical Domains Framework. Following the systematic process of the BCW, our proposed intervention strategies are based on ‘Environmental Restructuring’, such as providing prompts to increase awareness of noisy settings, and ‘Persuasion/Modelling’, such as providing credible role models.ConclusionsFor the first time, the present study demonstrates the use of the BCW for designing interventions in the context of hearing conservation.
AB - ObjectiveThe current study aimed to: i) determine the patterns of hearing protection device (HPD) use in early-career musicians, ii) identify barriers to and facilitators of HPD use, and iii) use the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) to develop an intervention to increase uptake and sustained use of HPDs.DesignA mixed-methods approach using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews.Study sampleEighty early-career musicians (age range = 18–26 years; women n = 39), across all categories of musical instrument.Results42.5% percent of participants reported using HPDs at least once a week, 35% less than once a week, and 22.5% reported never using HPDs for music-related activities. Six barriers and four facilitators of HPD use were identified. Barriers include the impact of HPDs on listening to music and performing, and a lack of concern about noise exposure. Barriers/facilitators were mapped onto the Theoretical Domains Framework. Following the systematic process of the BCW, our proposed intervention strategies are based on ‘Environmental Restructuring’, such as providing prompts to increase awareness of noisy settings, and ‘Persuasion/Modelling’, such as providing credible role models.ConclusionsFor the first time, the present study demonstrates the use of the BCW for designing interventions in the context of hearing conservation.
KW - Hearing loss
KW - tinnitus
KW - hearing protection
KW - interventions
KW - behaviour change
U2 - 10.1080/14992027.2021.1951852
DO - 10.1080/14992027.2021.1951852
M3 - Journal article
VL - 61
SP - 463
EP - 472
JO - International Journal of Audiology
JF - International Journal of Audiology
SN - 1499-2027
IS - 6
ER -