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Social representation of hearing aids: cross-cultural study in India, Iran, Portugal, and the United Kingdom

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Interventions in Aging, October 2015
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Title
Social representation of hearing aids: cross-cultural study in India, Iran, Portugal, and the United Kingdom
Published in
Clinical Interventions in Aging, October 2015
DOI 10.2147/cia.s86108
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Authors

Vinaya Manchaiah, Berth Danermark, Vinay, Tayebeh Ahmadi, David Tomé, Rajalakshmi Krishna, Per Germundsson

Abstract

The current study was aimed at understanding the social representation of hearing aids in India, Iran, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. We also compared these results to explore the cross-cultural differences and similarities among these countries. The study involved a cross-sectional design, and the data were collected from four different countries using the snowball sampling method. Data were analyzed using a content analysis to identify the most-similar categories of responses reported, a co-occurrences analysis to see which of these categories are reported commonly, and a chi-square analysis to study if there was any association between positive, neutral, and negative connotations among participants in different countries. The current study revealed four different social representations of hearing aids from India, Iran, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, and also a global index. The study results provide very useful insights into how hearing aids are represented in the society. These findings may have important implications for public education and also for manufacturers from the viewpoint of designing and marketing hearing aids in different countries.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 2%
Unknown 50 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 18%
Student > Master 9 18%
Student > Bachelor 6 12%
Researcher 5 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 8 16%
Unknown 11 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 10 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 14%
Psychology 6 12%
Social Sciences 4 8%
Arts and Humanities 3 6%
Other 8 16%
Unknown 13 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 February 2021.
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#2,643,573
of 25,584,565 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Interventions in Aging
#274
of 1,962 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#35,010
of 287,342 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Interventions in Aging
#7
of 54 outputs
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