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Development Of A Questionnaire To Assess Attitudes Toward Hearing Aids, Corinne O'Shaughnessy
Development Of A Questionnaire To Assess Attitudes Toward Hearing Aids, Corinne O'Shaughnessy
Dissertations, 2014-2019
Many reasons have been postulated as to why persons with hearing loss are reluctant to engage in the hearing rehabilitation process. While not the only determinant, an individual's attitudes toward hearing loss and hearing aids have been shown to affect adoption of amplification adversely and eventual outcomes of hearing aid use. Several attempts have been made to develop test instruments for attitudes toward hearing loss, but nothing specific to attitudes toward hearing aids or hearing aid technology. The primary objective of this study was to develop a questionnaire to assess attitudes toward hearing aids using the ABC model of attitude …