Modeling Relationships between Various Domains of Hearing Aid Provision
| Autor: | Martin Walger, Hartmut Meister, Jürgen Kiessling, Isabel Lausberg, Hasso von Wedel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Physiology Hearing loss Personal Satisfaction Audiology Severity of Illness Index Structural equation modeling Disability Evaluation Speech and Hearing Hearing Aids Hearing disability Surveys and Questionnaires otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans Hearing Disorders Hearing aid provision Aged Aged 80 and over Outcome measures Auditory Threshold Middle Aged Wirtschaftswissenschaften Sensory Systems Otorhinolaryngology Audiometry Pure-Tone Female medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Audiology and Neurotology. 8:153-165 |
| ISSN: | 1421-9700 1420-3030 |
| DOI: | 10.1159/000069479 |
| Popis: | Various inventories have been developed to quantify the success of hearing aid provision. Though numerous parameters including initial measures (hearing disability, handicap) or ‘outcome measures’ (e.g. benefit, satisfaction and usage) are recorded, relationships and interactions among them are still unclear. A study applying a questionnaire addressing 11 domains relevant to amplification was conducted in order to generate different psychometric models with the AMOS© software package for structural equation modeling. The models expose easily interpretable interactions and are helpful in understanding effects occurring with commonly used outcome measures: benefit reflects the difference between the aided and unaided condition but additionally comprises the importance of the hearing aid within a specific situation. Satisfaction is highly reliant on benefit. Usage is strongly dependent on the severity of hearing problems and therefore not appropriate in assessing the success of amplification. Moreover, the models help to predict the outcome of clinically used inventories (i.e. the Glasgow Hearing Aid Benefit Profile). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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