Class
Article
Department
Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education Department
Faculty Mentor
Brittan Barker
Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Abstract
Although hearing aids have been shown to improve audibility for people with hearing loss, not all hearing aid candidates choose to wear hearing aids. We propose that one reason for this lack of hearing aid use is patients’ unrealistic expectations of the hearing aid technology. For this study, we aimed to create video stimuli with strong content validity that can be employed in a later study exploring patient expectations of hearing aids. In order to create the stimuli, we first reviewed personal narratives from hearing aid users and non-users. Then we selected representative statements of a variety of individuals’ experiences with hearing aids to serve as the source of 2 video scripts, each compiled of 5 scenes. We filmed the 10 total scenes and then surveyed persons with and without hearing loss to assess which 5 video scenes’ scripts had the highest content validity. The video scenes deemed most representative of adults’ experiences with HL and HAs by both persons with HL and without HL—and, in the case of a discrepancy between the two groups, the scene deemed most representative by persons with HL— will be later compiled into a final video and used as a stimulus in a future study exploring if new HA candidates expectations surrounding HAs can be managed to be practical.
Location
Logan, UT
Start Date
4-14-2021 12:00 AM
Included in
Creation of Video Stimuli Based on Adults' Hearing Aid Experiences
Logan, UT
Although hearing aids have been shown to improve audibility for people with hearing loss, not all hearing aid candidates choose to wear hearing aids. We propose that one reason for this lack of hearing aid use is patients’ unrealistic expectations of the hearing aid technology. For this study, we aimed to create video stimuli with strong content validity that can be employed in a later study exploring patient expectations of hearing aids. In order to create the stimuli, we first reviewed personal narratives from hearing aid users and non-users. Then we selected representative statements of a variety of individuals’ experiences with hearing aids to serve as the source of 2 video scripts, each compiled of 5 scenes. We filmed the 10 total scenes and then surveyed persons with and without hearing loss to assess which 5 video scenes’ scripts had the highest content validity. The video scenes deemed most representative of adults’ experiences with HL and HAs by both persons with HL and without HL—and, in the case of a discrepancy between the two groups, the scene deemed most representative by persons with HL— will be later compiled into a final video and used as a stimulus in a future study exploring if new HA candidates expectations surrounding HAs can be managed to be practical.