Ecological momentary assessments for evaluation of hearing-aid preference
| Autor: | Petra Herrlin, Karolina Smeds, Florian Wolters, Josefina Larsson, Martin Dahlquist |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Hearing aid
Acoustics and Ultrasonics Ecology media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment 01 natural sciences Preference Test (assessment) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 0103 physical sciences medicine Conversation Active listening 030223 otorhinolaryngology Association (psychology) Everyday life Psychology 010301 acoustics Memory bias media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143:1742-1742 |
| ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
| DOI: | 10.1121/1.5035685 |
| Popis: | Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) is a method that involves repeated evaluations in for instance a hearing-device user’s everyday life. Compared to retrospective evaluations, the EMA method minimizes memory bias, and by making several evaluations each day, patterns in the data can be studied. In a pilot study at ORCA Europe, an EMA method was used to evaluate preference for two hearing-aid programs. For two weeks, the test participants were prompted to make evaluations, using a smartphone questionnaire. They were first asked to describe and classify each listening situation into categories such as “conversation with one person” and “monitoring surroundings.” Then they made paired comparisons of the two hearing-aid programs. After the field-trial period, the participants also selected their overall preferred program. Group data for all listening situations pooled showed that the two programs were preferred almost equally often. However, when the data were divided into the seven listening categories, a pattern of preference could be seen. There also seemed to be an association between the test participants’ auditory ecology profiles and their overall preferred program. The study will be presented, and the potential of the EMA method for research, development, clinical evaluations, and individualization of hearing-aid settings will be discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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