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2016

Health and environmental sciences

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The Effect Of Cost, Benefit, And Level Of Technology On Patient Preference And Satisfaction With Hearing Aids, Lindsay M. Young Apr 2016

The Effect Of Cost, Benefit, And Level Of Technology On Patient Preference And Satisfaction With Hearing Aids, Lindsay M. Young

Doctoral Dissertations

The present double blind study sought to determine if experienced hearing aid users can differentiate between different levels of hearing aid technology. Specifically, the following research questions were addressed: (1) Are HINT scores affected by level of hearing aid technology for experienced hearing aid users?; 2) Is benefit/satisfaction of hearing aids affected by level of technology for experienced hearing aid users?; and (3) How do hearing aid users rank different levels of technology? If a perceptual difference in hearing aid technology is identified by hearing aid users, participants were asked to identify how money much they would be willing to …