Peer-reviewed Research
Person-centred care and changing the hearing care system
- McMahon CM, Barr CM, Vitkovic J, Gopinath B. (2021) A public health approach to ensure equitable, person-centred solutions to address ear disease, hearing loss and deafness. Public Health Res Pract. 2021;31(5):e3152133. https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp3152133
- Grenness, C., Hickson, L., Laplante-Lévesque, A., & Davidson, B. (2014). Patient-centred audiological rehabilitation: Perspectives of older adults who own hearing aids. International Journal of Audiology, 53(sup1), S68-S75.
- Grenness, C., Hickson, L., Laplante-Lévesque, A., Meyer, C., & Davidson, B. (2015). The nature of communication throughout diagnosis and management planning in initial audiologic rehabilitation consultations. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 26(1), 36-50.
- Ekberg, K., Meyer, C., Scarinci, N., Grenness, C., & Hickson, L. (2015). Family member involvement in audiology appointments with older people with hearing impairment. International Journal of Audiology, 54(2), 70-76.
- Meyer, C., Barr, C., Khan, A., & Hickson, L. (2017). Audiologist-patient communication profiles in hearing rehabilitation appointments. Patient Education and Counseling, 100(8), 1490-1498.
- Ekberg, K., Barr, C., & Hickson, L. (2017). Difficult conversations: Talking about cost in audiology consultations with older adults. International journal of audiology, 56(11), 854-861.
- William, G., Barr, C., Meyer, C., & Cowan, R. (2019). Are You Providing Person-Centered Hearing Care?. The Hearing Journal, 72(2), 18-20.
Social and emotional health and people with hearing conditions
- Ekberg, K., Grenness, C., & Hickson, L. (2014). Addressing patients’ psychosocial concerns regarding hearing aids within audiology appointments for older adults. American Journal of Audiology, 23(3), 337-350.
- Bennett, R. J., Meyer, C. J., Ryan, B., Barr, C., Laird, E., & Eikelboom, R. H. (2020). Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices of Australian Audiologists in Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Adults With Hearing Loss. American Journal of Audiology, 1-14.
- Emma C Laird, Christina A Bryant, Caitlin M Barr, Rebecca J Bennett (2022). Conversations about mental illness and health in adult audiological rehabilitation. Int J Audiol. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2022.2034060.
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eHealth and new ways of providing services
Support for the social and emotional wellbeing of people impacted by balance disorders
Prevention of hearing loss and taking care of your ears
Allied health professionals and GPs supporting people with hearing conditions
Vestibular audiology and balance disorders
- Story L, Barr C, Dowell R, Vitkovic J. Third-party disability in ongoing vestibular disorders through the lens of the ICF framework. Int J Audiol. 2021 Jan 27:1-13. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2020.1870051. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33502267.
- Bahkit M. (2019) Vestibular migraine: a challenging illness to live with and to manage: a qualitative study of patients’ and specialists’ perspectives PhD Thesis, The University of Melbourne Australia. https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/225730 – Vitkovic J.- PhD supervisor
- Vitkovic, J. Vestibular Rehabilitation, in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders, edited by: Jack S. Damico & Martin J. Ball. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483380810.n664
- Vitkovic J, Le C, Lee S.L, Clarke R.A. The Contribution of Hearing and Hearing Loss to Balance Control. Audiology & Neurotology, 21 2016: pp 195-202.
- Vitkovic J, Winoto A, Rance G, Dowell R, Paine M. Vestibular Rehabilitation Outcomes in Patients with and without Vestibular Migraine. Journal of Neurology, 260(12) 2013: pp.3039-48.
- Moran M., Vitkovic J. Perceptual differences in vestibular migraine populations in response to vestibular function testing. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology 33(1) 2013; pp 1-14. § Vitkovic J. Vestibular Migraineurs: Outcomes of Vestibular Rehabilitation and the Role of Neural Habituation
- (2011) Thesis. University of Melbourne, Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences/Opthalmology.
- Vitkovic J. Paine M. Rance G. The Neuro-otological findings in patients with migraine and non-migraine related dizziness. Audiology & Neurotology 13(2) 2008; pp 113-122.
- Enticott J. C., Vitkovic J. J., Reid B., O’Neill P. and M. Paine. Vestibular Rehabilitation in Individuals with Inner-ear Dysfunction: A Pilot Study. Audiology and Neuro-otology 13 (1) 2008: pp 19-28.
Tinnitus
McGinnity S., Francis Beach E., Cowan R., Mulder J., Power D., & Barr C., (2020) Does person-centred care improve outcomes for musicians fitted with hearing protectors?, International Journal of Audiology, DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2020.1771621