Is measured hearing aid benefit affected by seeing baseline outcome questionnaire responses?
| Autor: | ShienPei C. Silverman, Gabrielle H. Saunders, Megan Cates |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Hearing aid
medicine.medical_specialty Hearing loss medicine.medical_treatment Audiology Outcome (game theory) Article Speech and Hearing Hearing Aids Surveys and Questionnaires Medicine Humans Correction of Hearing Impairment Baseline (configuration management) Hearing Loss Aged Veterans business.industry Follow up studies Middle Aged Patient Acceptance of Health Care Outcome and Process Assessment Health Care Audiologic Rehabilitation Physical therapy medicine.symptom business Attitude to Health Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | American journal of audiology. 20(2) |
| ISSN: | 1558-9137 |
| Popis: | Purpose To determine whether hearing aid outcome measured by the Hearing Handicap Inventory (HHI) for the Elderly/Adults (Newman, Weinstein, Jacobson, & Hug, 1990; Ventry & Weinstein, 1982) is differentially affected by informed vs. blind administration of the postfitting questionnaire. Method Participants completed the HHI at their hearing aid evaluation and again at their hearing aid follow-up visit. At follow-up, half received a clean HHI form (blind administration), whereas the remainder responded on their original form (informed administration) and could thus base their follow-up responses on those they gave at the hearing aid evaluation. Results The data show that for the population examined here, informed administration of the follow-up HHI did not yield a different outcome to blind administration of the follow-up HHI. This was not influenced by past hearing aid use, age of the participant, or the duration of time between baseline questionnaire completion and follow-up completion. Conclusion These data suggest that completion of follow-up questionnaires in either informed or blind format will have little impact on HHI responses, most likely because of the many other factors that combined to influence hearing aid outcome. |
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