Narayanan Sreeram K, Houmøller Sabina S, Wolff Anne, Lund Katja, Möller Sören, Hougaard Dan D, Gaihede Michael, Schmidt Jesper H, Hammershøi Dorte
Section for AI and Sound, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark.
Research Unit for ORL-Head & Neck Surgery and Audiology, Odense University Hospital, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
Audiol Res. 2023 Mar 27;13(2):221-235. doi: 10.3390/audiolres13020021.
The retrospective reporting of users' hearing aid (HA) usage can provide insight into individualized HA usage patterns. Understanding these HA usage patterns can help to provide a tailored solution to meet the usage needs of HA users. This study aims to understand the HA usage pattern in daily-life situations from self-reported data and to examine its relationship to self-reported outcomes. A total of 1537 participants who responded to questions related to situations where they always took off or put on the HAs were included in the study. A latent class analysis was performed to stratify the HA users according to their HA usage pattern. The results showed distinct usage patterns in the latent classes derived for both scenarios. The demographics, socio-economic indicators, hearing loss, and user-related factors were found to impact HA usage. The results showed that the HA users who reported using the HAs all the time (regular users) had better self-reported HA outcomes than situational users, situational non-users, and non-users. The study explained the underlying distinct HA usage pattern from self-reported questionnaires using latent class analysis. The results emphasized the importance of regular use of HAs for a better self-reported HA outcome.
用户对助听器（HA）使用情况的回顾性报告能够提供对个性化HA使用模式的洞察。了解这些HA使用模式有助于提供量身定制的解决方案，以满足HA用户的使用需求。本研究旨在从自我报告的数据中了解日常生活情况下的HA使用模式，并检验其与自我报告结果的关系。共有1537名回答了与他们总是摘下或佩戴HA的情况相关问题的参与者被纳入研究。进行了潜在类别分析，以根据HA使用模式对HA用户进行分层。结果显示，在两种情况下得出的潜在类别中存在不同的使用模式。研究发现，人口统计学、社会经济指标、听力损失和与用户相关的因素会影响HA的使用。结果表明，报告一直使用HA的用户（常规用户）在自我报告的HA结果方面比情境用户、情境非用户和非用户更好。该研究使用潜在类别分析从自我报告问卷中解释了潜在的不同HA使用模式。结果强调了定期使用HA对于获得更好的自我报告HA结果的重要性。
