Katz James, Mormer Elaine, Parthasarathy Aravind, Bharadwaj Hari, Wang Yanshan, Palmer Catherine
Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Department of Health Information Management, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Semin Hear. 2025 Apr 1;46(1):40-52. doi: 10.1055/s-0045-1806805. eCollection 2025 Feb.
This article describes the breadth of experiences associated with pursuing commercially available over-the-counter hearing aids (OTC-HAs). Dr. Katz behaved as a consumer pursuing various OTC-HAs. This activity was part of a larger project aimed at identifying overarching consumer listening goals, creating metrics to assess consumer-identified desired usability, features, and performance, and designing a consumer-friendly web-based application to support thoughtful hearing self-care. Additionally, we provide a review of the aims of the larger project to set the context for this work.
本文描述了使用市售非处方助听器（OTC-HAs）的广泛体验。卡茨博士以消费者的身份使用了各种OTC-HAs。这项活动是一个更大项目的一部分，该项目旨在确定总体消费者听力目标，创建评估消费者确定的所需可用性、功能和性能的指标，并设计一个方便消费者使用的基于网络的应用程序，以支持周到的听力自我护理。此外，我们还对这个更大项目的目标进行了综述，为这项工作奠定背景。
