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Impact of Facemasks Use on Interpersonal Communication in a Clinical Setup: A Questionnaire Based Study.
Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery 2023 January 16
Precautionary measures such as physical distancing, wearing a mask, and hand hygiene to suppress virus transmission necessitated a shift in the communication paradigm.The study aimed to check the effects of wearing masks (N95, surgical, and cloth) due to the COVID-19 pandemic on interpersonal communication in audiology-speech-language pathology clinical setup from a clinician perspective. A total of 105 participants, 17 males, and 88 females, in the age range of 19 to 29 years (Mean age = 21.41 years; S.D = 1.6), participated in the study. A questionnaire consisting of 15 close-ended questions grouped into five major categories, Communication Effectiveness (3 questions), Visual Cues (5 questions), Physiological Effect (4 questions), Palliative Effect (1 question), and Environment Effect (2 questions) was framed. Procedure: Participants rated the questions using a binary forced-choice as either Yes or No adapted into a google form. Results showed that most questions in all five categories received an above-average "yes" response. A significant association between questions in communication effectiveness with visual cues and physiological effects was noticed, leading to the conclusion that wearing face masks impacted overall communication by affecting various parameters of speech, majorly, the voice. It was also seen that of all the participants, 60% used N95, 32.4% used cloth, and only 7.6% used surgical face masks. Speech-language pathologists have a significant role in facilitating oral/ verbal communication when such barriers are encountered in clients with communication disorders and fellow professionals with strategies to strengthen oral/ verbal communication.
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