Detecting components of hearing aid fitting using a self-assessment-inventory
| Autor: | Martin Walger, Juergen Kiessling, Hasso von Wedel, Isabel Lausberg, Hartmut Meister |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Hearing aid
Self-assessment Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment Hearing Loss Sensorineural Audiology Correlation Hearing Aids Hearing Surveys and Questionnaires otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans Active listening Psychoacoustics Aged Estimation Aged 80 and over business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged Noise Otorhinolaryngology Patient Satisfaction QUIET Female business |
| Zdroj: | European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 262(7) |
| ISSN: | 0937-4477 |
| Popis: | The evaluation of hearing-aid fitting includes numerous assessments such as electro- and psychoacoustic tests. The subjective estimation of the hearing aid user can be elicited with self-assessment inventories encompassing various parameters, e.g., benefit, satisfaction and usage. A questionnaire comprising 11 domains (disability, handicap, frequency and significance of the listening situation, importance of the hearing aid, expectation, demand, aided performance, benefit, satisfaction and usage) within three different conditions (speech in quiet and in noise and listening to sounds) was used to detect components underlying hearing aid fitting. The data show a three-factor structure (situation-, restriction- and aid-related variables) independent from the conditions. Usage depends on all of the three factors. Disability and handicap reveal the highest values for speech in noise, whereas the aid-related factor shows the lowest values for this condition. Global satisfaction with the hearing aid is significantly correlated with the aid-related factor, but independent from the restriction of hearing. The aid-related factor is positively influenced by the amount of social activity because more active persons report higher benefit and satisfaction for all listening conditions. Age does not exhibit a significant relationship to one of the components. Basically, all correlation coefficients are only intermediate, revealing that inter-individual differences of the patients are rather high. The data indicate that extra-audiological factors might also play an important role in the success of hearing aid fitting. |
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