Hearing Aid Fitting Outcome: Clinical Application and Psychometric Properties of a Swedish Translation of the International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA)

Brännström, K. Jonas; Wennerström, Ingegerd

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“…The pre-intervention results in the two RCTs are in line with published results from other Swedish studies (Brännström and Wennerström, 2010;Öberg et al, 2007), where hearing aid rehabilitation has been evaluated using the IOI-HA. The outcome of the data is therefore that the participants in the RCT studies were neither more nor less satisfied with their hearing aids before they took part in the online rehabilitation program than general hearing-aid users in Sweden after completing ordinary hearing aid rehabilitation.…”

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“…The outcome of these self-reports are aligned with ICF terminology (WHO, 2001) and the domains of activity limitation and participation restriction. A questionnaire that is widely used in studies worldwide and that has been translated into many languages is the International Outcome Inventory of Hearing Aids (IOI-HA, Brännström and Wennerström, 2010;Cox and Alexander, 2002;Cox et al, 2000;. The questionnaire includes questions related to the most important domains (Humes et al, 2001): hearing aid use, hearing aid benefits, residual activity limitation, satisfaction, residual participation restriction, impact on others and quality of life.…”

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Internet Interventions for Hearing Loss: Examing rehabilitation, self-report measures and internet use for hearing-aid users

Thorén¹

2014

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In the future, the rehabilitation of adults with hearing loss is likely to involve modern information technology. It is therefore important to determine whether and to what extent adults with hearing losses use the internet. When evaluating hearing rehabilitation, it is reasonable to use self-report questionnaires as outcome measures. The questionnaires used in audiological research are developed and validated for paper-and-pencil administration. Standardized questionnaires used in the audiological context should also be evaluated in an online administration format. Using the internet in the audiological rehabilitation process might be a cost-effective way to include additional rehabilitation components by guiding hearing-aid users on topics such as communication strategies, hearing tactics and how to handle hearing aids. The development of online rehabilitation programs might foster behavioral changes that will positively affect hearing-aid users.Four studies were conducted with a total of 338 participating hearing-aid users. In the first study, the participants' amount of internet use was investigated. In the second study, the administration format (online vs. paper-and-pencil) of four standardized questionnaires used in hearing research and clinics were evaluated. Finally, two randomized controlled trials were performed to evaluate the efficacy of an online rehabilitation program that included professional guidance by an audiologist. The program lasted over five weeks and was designed for adult, experienced hearing-aid users. The effects of the online programs were compared with the effects of a control group. In the first randomized controlled trial, the participants of the control group participated in an online discussion forum without any professional contact (Study III). In the second randomized controlled trial, the control group participants were informed that the rehabilitation program was full and they were transferred to a waiting list pending treatment (Study IV).The results in the first study showed that 60% of the participating hearing-aid users used computers and the internet. The internet use level was at least at the same level for people with hearing loss as for the general age-matched population in Sweden. In the second study a significant main effect of questionnaire format was found for one questionnaire, which evaluated the participants' activity limitations and participation restrictions; the participants had higher scores on the online format than on the paper format. Other than that, no interaction effects for format were found for the other three questionnaires. In the first randomized controlled trial, after the five-week online rehabilitation program, both groups of participants showed significant improvements and the effects were maintained in domains of activity limitation and participation restriction at the six-month follow-up. Moreover, effects in psychosocial domains were found. In the second randomized controlled trial, after the five-week online rehabilitation, the p...

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Internet Interventions for Hearing Loss: Examing rehabilitation, self-report measures and internet use for hearing-aid users

Thorén¹

2014

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“…Whether the HAs are fi tted monaurally or binaurally does not seem to infl uence the IOI-HA global outcome (Heuermann et al, 2005;Cook & Hawkins, 2007;Br ä nnstr ö m & Wennerstr ö m, 2010;Hickson et al, 2010), although binaurally fi tted subjects seem to use their HAs more (Stephens, 2002). Binaurally fi tted subjects also report higher scores on the introspection subscale (Kramer et al, 2005), but this may be confounded with the fi nding that these subjects tend to have had their hearing loss for a longer period of time (Stephens, 2002;Kramer et al, 2005).…”

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“…The psychometric properties of the IOI-HA have been evaluated for English speaking populations (Cox & Alexander, 2002;Stephens, 2002;Smith et al, 2009;Hickson et al, 2010) and for a few other languages Heuermann et al, 2005; Br ä nnstr ö m & Wennerstr ö m, 2010; Liu et al, 2011) including Danish Jespersen et al, 2005;Vestergaard, 2006). Previous studies indicate that the IOI-HA is infl uenced by two factors, one pertaining to introspection ( ' me and my hearing aid ' ; items 1, 2, 4, and 7) and one to interaction ( ' me and the rest of the world ' ; items 3, 5, and 6) (Cox & Alexander, 2002;Kramer et al, 2002;Stephens, 2002;Vestergaard, 2006;Ö berg et al, 2007;Br ä nnstr ö m & Wennerstr ö m, 2010).…”

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Acceptable noise level (ANL) with Danish and non-semantic speech materials in adult hearing-aid users

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International Journal of Audiology

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Danish and non-semantic ANL versions yield results similar to the American English version. The magnitude of the CR indicates that ANL with Danish and non-semantic speech materials is not suitable for prediction of individual patterns of future hearing-aid use or evaluation of individual benefit from hearing-aid features. The ANL with Danish and non-semantic speech materials is not related to IOI-HA outcome.

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“…The Swedish version of IOI-HA (see Brännström & Wennerström, 2010;Öberg et al, 2007) was used in this thesis. (Appendix I)…”

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Cognition in Hearing Aid Users: Memory for Everyday Speech

Ng¹

2013

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Hearing impairment interferes with speech communication. Hearing aids are designed to provide amplification for individuals with poor auditory sensitivity. Signal processing algorithms are implemented in hearing aids to further improve speech understanding and to reduce listening effort in noise. When listening effort is reduced, fewer resources are assumed to be needed for speech perception and more resources would thus be freed for cognitive processing of speech. However, this effect has only been reported in young adults with normal hearing, not in hearing aid users. Cognitive abilities, which vary between individuals, have been shown to influence the ability to benefit from hearing aids. Specifically, it is not yet known how individual differences in cognitive abilities interact with signal processing to reduce listening effort. Also, the relationship between cognition and aided speech recognition performance, as a function of acclimatization processes in new hearing aid users, has not been studied previously.This thesis investigated the importance of cognition for speech understanding in experienced and new hearing aid users. Four studies were carried out. In the first three studies (reported in Papers 1 to 3), experienced hearing aid users were tested and the aims were 1) to develop a cognitive test, called the Sentence-final Word Identification and Recall (SWIR) test, to measure the effects of a noise reduction algorithm on processing of highly intelligible speech (everyday sentences). SWIR performance is argued to reflect the amount of remaining resources upon successful speech perception; 2) to investigate, using the SWIR test, whether hearing aid signal processing would affect memory for heard speech; 3) to test whether the effects of signal processing on the ability to recall speech would interact with background noise and individual differences in working memory capacity; and 4) to explore the potential clinical application of the SWIR test by examining the relationship between SWIR performance and self-reported hearing aid outcome. In the fourth study (reported in Paper 4), the aim was 5) to examine the relationship between cognition and speech recognition in noise in new users using various models of hearing aids over the first six months of hearing aid use.Results of the studies reported in Papers 1 and 3 demonstrated that, for experienced users, noise impairs the ability to recall intelligible speech heard in noise. Noise reduction freed up cognitive resources and alleviated the negative impact of noise on memory when speech stimuli were presented in background noise consisting of speech babble spoken in the listener's native language but not in a foreign language. The possible underlying mechanisms are that noise reduction facilitates auditory stream segregation between target and irrelevant speech and reduces the attention captured by the linguistic information in irrelevant speech. In both studies, the effects of noise reduction and SWIR performance were modulated by individual differe...

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Hearing Aid Fitting Outcome: Clinical Application and Psychometric Properties of a Swedish Translation of the International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA)

Cited by 38 publications

References 12 publications

Internet Interventions for Hearing Loss: Examing rehabilitation, self-report measures and internet use for hearing-aid users

Internet Interventions for Hearing Loss: Examing rehabilitation, self-report measures and internet use for hearing-aid users

Acceptable noise level (ANL) with Danish and non-semantic speech materials in adult hearing-aid users

Cognition in Hearing Aid Users: Memory for Everyday Speech

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