Accuracy of hearing aid use time as reported by experienced hearing aid wearers
Accuracy of hearing aid use time as reported by experienced hearing aid wearers
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DOI：
10.1097/00003446-199908000-00003
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发表时间：
1999-08-01
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Pratt, S
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作者：
Taubman, LB;Palmer, CV;Pratt, S
目的：本研究的目的是调查一个人报告佩戴助听器的时间与实际佩戴助听器的时间之间的关系。虽然使用时间的数据被用于分析和解释有关的听觉感知学习和用户满意度的调查，自我报告的使用时间的准确性还没有得到充分的investigated.Design：实验组和对照组适合与助听器，具有存储使用时间数据的能力，供以后分析。实验组被告知，自我报告的使用时间将通过提供实际使用时间的助听器的计算机分析来验证。未告知对照组使用时间确认程序。两组之间自我报告和实际使用时间之间的一致性进行了统计学比较结果：实验组提供了准确的自我报告的使用时间，而对照组在实际使用时间和自我报告的使用时间之间显示出显著差异。这些结果可能有助于解释以前的调查结果，这些调查依赖于自我报告的使用时间和未来调查的设计。对于临床医生来说，结果表明，依靠患者自我报告的助听器使用时间来记录满意度或信号处理偏好可能会产生误导。
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the amount of time that a person reports wearing his or her hearing aid and the actual time that the hearing aid is worn. Although use time data are used in the analysis and interpretation of investigations concerned with auditory perceptual learning and with user satisfaction, the accuracy of self-reported use time has not been fully investigated.Design: The experimental and control group were fit with a hearing aid that has the capability of storing use time data for later analysis. The experimental group was told that the self-reported use time would be verified with a computer analysis of the hearing aid that provides the actual use time. The control group was not informed of the use time validation procedure. The agreement between self-reported and actual use time was compared statistically between groups (knowledge of validation versus no knowledge of validation).Results: The experimental group provided accurate self-reported use time whereas the control group showed a significant difference between actual use time and self-reported use time.Conclusions: The results may assist in the interpretation of results of previous investigations that have depended on self-reported use time and in the design of future investigations. For the clinician, the results indicate that relying on a patient's self-reported hearing aid use time for documentation of satisfaction or signal processing preference may be misleading.