Patient Preference for Entry, Mid, or Advanced Level Digital Hearing Aid Technology
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Ohio State University. Department of Speech and Hearing ScienceSeries/Report no.:
Ohio State University. Department of Speech and Hearing Science. Doctor of Audiology Capstone Projects. 2014Abstract:
The motivation of this retrospective study was to determine if patient files indicated preference for advanced level hearing aid technology over mid-level and entry level technology. Fifty participants were selected from the database at The Ohio State University Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic whose hearing loss warranted amplification and who trialed different levels of technology and provided feedback on each level trialed. Forty seven patients were included in the study; eighteen of which were blinded to the level of hearing aid technology and twenty-nine who were not. Ninety-four percent of subjects in the blinded group and 90% of subjects in the not blinded group preferred the highest level of hearing aid technology they trialed. Altogether; 89% of subjects who trialed the advanced level technology preferred it to lower levels of technology and 91% preferred the highest technology level trialed. One-hundred percent of previous hearing aid users preferred the highest level hearing aid technology trialed, in comparison to 88% of new hearing aid users. In total, 17% of the blinded group and 24% of the not blinded group purchased a lower level of hearing aid technology than was preferred; 21% of the total subjects. Ninety-three percent of previous hearing aid users purchased their preference and 75% of new hearing aid users purchased their preference; 79% of all subjects in total purchased their preference.
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