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March 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda FRIDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) — Deaf people are about twice
as likely to have mental health problems as people in the general
population, according to a new review of evidence.
In addition, deaf people have greater difficulty getting mental health
care and the quality of care tends to be lower, according to the review
appearing online March 15 in The Lancet.
The researchers also found that deaf children who cannot make
themselves understood within their family are four times more likely to
have mental health disorders and more likely to suffer mistreatment at
school than deaf children who can communicate with their family members,
according to a journal news release.
One study found that deaf boys were three times more likely and deaf
girls twice as likely to report sexual abuse, compared to children who
could hear.
The review found that deaf patients report fear, mistrust and
frustration in health care services. Along with communication problems
when seeing health professionals, deaf patients have difficulty accessing
health information.
“Improved access to health and mental health care can be achieved by
specialist services with professionals trained to directly communicate
with deaf people and with sign-language interpreters,” said Dr. Johannes
Fellinger, from the Health Centre for the Deaf at the Hospital of St. John
of God in Linz, Austria, and colleagues.
About seven per 10,000 people worldwide are severely or profoundly
deaf, with onset of deafness before language development, according to the
release. U.S. research has shown that about 25 percent of deaf students
have other disabilities, including learning difficulties, developmental
delay, visual impairment and autism.
“Patients from the deaf community have the same need for good
communication and safe care as everyone else,” said British researchers
Dr. Andrew Alexander, from the Royal United Hospital in Bath; Dr. Paddy
Ladd, from the Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol; and
Steve Powell, from SignHealth, in Beaconsfield, in an accompanying
commentary.
“Clinicians have a responsibility to recognize that communication is a
two-way process, and that they need assistance to communicate with this
group of patients,” they said. “So what should you do when you meet your
next patient from the deaf community? Putting yourself in their shoes and
asking them how best to communicate would be a good start.”
More information
The American Academy of Family Physicians offers suggestions on how deaf or hearing-impaired people can work with their
doctor.
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