Hearing aid fine-tuning based on Dutch descriptions.
Objective: The aim of this study was to derive an independent fitting assistant based on expert consensus. Two questions were asked: (1) what (Dutch) terms do hearing impaired listeners use nowadays to describe their specific hearing aid fitting problems? (2) What is the expert consensus on how to r...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Audiology Vol. 56; no. 7; pp. 507 - 516 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2017
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=123914456&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 123914456 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 14992027 JW2 jtl: International Journal of Audiology issn: 14992027 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jul2017 vid: 56 iid: 7 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 123914456 123914456 123914456 10.1080/14992027.2017.1288302 123914456 ppf: 507 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Hearing aid fine-tuning based on Dutch descriptions. aug: au: Thielemans, Thijs Pans, Donné Chenault, Michelene Anteunis, Lucien affil: Koninklijke Kentalis, Den Bosch and Sint Michielsgestel, the Netherlands sug: subj: Hearing Aids Assistive Technology Human Netherlands Factor Analysis Questionnaires Male Female Adult Middle Age Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: Objective: The aim of this study was to derive an independent fitting assistant based on expert consensus. Two questions were asked: (1) what (Dutch) terms do hearing impaired listeners use nowadays to describe their specific hearing aid fitting problems? (2) What is the expert consensus on how to resolve these complaints by adjusting hearing aid parameters?Design: Hearing aid dispensers provided descriptors that impaired listeners use to describe their reactions to specific hearing aid fitting problems. Hearing aid fitting experts were asked “How would you adjust the hearing aid if its user reports that the aid sounds…?” with the blank filled with each of the 40 most frequently mentioned descriptors.Study sample: 112 hearing aid dispensers and 15 hearing aid experts. The expert solution with the highest weight value was considered the best solution for that descriptor. Principal component analysis (PCA) was performed to identify a factor structure in fitting problems.Results: Nine fitting problems could be identified resulting in an expert-based, hearing aid manufacturer independent, fine-tuning fitting assistant for clinical use.Conclusions: The construction of an expert-based, hearing aid manufacturer independent, fine-tuning fitting assistant to be used as an additional tool in the iterative fitting process is feasible. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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