TY - CONF
T1 - Speech Related Hearing Aid Benefit Index Derived from Standardized Self-Reported Questionnaire Data
AU - Narayanan, Sreeram Kaithali
AU - Piechowiak, Tobias
AU - Wolff, Anne
AU - Storbjerg Houmøller, Sabina
AU - Narne, Vijaya Kumar
AU - Loquet, Gérard Sylvian Jean Marie
AU - Hougaard, Dan Dupont
AU - Gaihede, Michael
AU - Schmidt, Jesper Hvass
AU - Hammershøi, Dorte
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The present work is inspired by the thought of having a single index toscale the hearing aid (HA) benefit from self-reported questionnaires. Previous studies have shown that speech understanding in noisy environments is one of the most desired improvements sought by hearing aid users [1, 2].The perceived HA benefit thus can depend on the facilitation of everyday communication in challenging environments by the HA. This shouldalso ideally reflect in self-reported questionnaires responses recorded inthe BEAR project. Single index scale would facilitate the identification ofa sub-population, if there exist, with a low-compensation benefit from theusage of hearing aid.The self-reported questionnaire responses recorded during the follow-upvisit 2 months after the initial fit, show a stronger correlation (Figure 1)of 15D question 3 related to speech understanding, to the 17 questions ofSSQ, and three questions from IOI-HA (Question 3, 5, and 6), which werealso part of the same survey (Figure 2). Further, a composite single valueindex created from speech-related questions (SRQ) that are part of the survey can be a good representation of the perceived hearing aid benefit.
AB - The present work is inspired by the thought of having a single index toscale the hearing aid (HA) benefit from self-reported questionnaires. Previous studies have shown that speech understanding in noisy environments is one of the most desired improvements sought by hearing aid users [1, 2].The perceived HA benefit thus can depend on the facilitation of everyday communication in challenging environments by the HA. This shouldalso ideally reflect in self-reported questionnaires responses recorded inthe BEAR project. Single index scale would facilitate the identification ofa sub-population, if there exist, with a low-compensation benefit from theusage of hearing aid.The self-reported questionnaire responses recorded during the follow-upvisit 2 months after the initial fit, show a stronger correlation (Figure 1)of 15D question 3 related to speech understanding, to the 17 questions ofSSQ, and three questions from IOI-HA (Question 3, 5, and 6), which werealso part of the same survey (Figure 2). Further, a composite single valueindex created from speech-related questions (SRQ) that are part of the survey can be a good representation of the perceived hearing aid benefit.
KW - Speech understanding
KW - Hearing aid
KW - Self-reported questionnaires
KW - Speech understanding
KW - Hearing aid
KW - Self-reported questionnaires
M3 - Poster
Y2 - 21 August 2019 through 23 August 2019
ER -