Application of the transtheoretical model of behaviour change for identifying older clients’ readiness for hearing rehabilitation during history-taking in audiology appointments

Figures & data

Table 1. Results of coding clients according to stage-of-change.

Stage-of-change	Total number of clients		Clients offered no rehab		Clients offered hearing aids		Clients who accepted hearing aids
Pre-contemplation	17	27%	7	41%	10	59%	2	20%
Contemplation	40	65%	6	15%	34	85%	24	71%
Preparation	5	8%	0	0%	5	100%	4	80%
Total	62	100%	13	21%	49	79%	30	61%

Table

(.)	Micro-pause: less than a tenth of a second
(0.2), (2.6)	Examples of timed pauses
↑word	Onset of noticeable pitch rise
↓word	Onset of noticeable pitch fall
A: word [word B: [word	Square brackets aligned across adjacent lines denote the start of overlapping talk.
.	Falling vocal pitch
?	Rising vocal pitch
.hhh	In-breath
hhh	Out-breath
wo(h)rd	Within-speech aspirations
wor-	A sharp cut-off
wo:rd	Colons show that the speaker has stretched the preceding sound
(words)	A guess at what might have been said if unclear
()	Unclear talk
A: word = B: =word	The equals sign shows that there is no discernible pause between two speakers' turns
word	Vocal emphasis
WORD	Talk pronounced loudly in comparison with surrounding talk
°word°	Talk between ʽdegree signsʼ is quieter than surrounding talk
>word word<	Talk between inward arrows is delivered faster than surrounding talk
<word word>	Talk between outward arrows is delivered slower than surrounding talk
→	Analyst’s signal of a significant line
((sniff))	Transcriber’s effort at representing something difficult, or impossible, to write phonetically
£word£	Words spoken with smiley voice