title: Hearing aid troubleshooting based on patients' descriptions.
abstract: Clinical audiologists were surveyed to determine the terms that their patients use to describe their reaction to hearing aid fitting problems. From this survey, a vocabulary of 40 frequently reported terms was developed. A second survey of hearing aid fitting experts was conducted to determine their methods of troubleshooting a hearing aid fitting when the patient reports one of the frequently reported terms. There was a high degree of agreement among the 24 experts. Principal components analysis resulted in ten components that explained 90.8% of the variance in the experts' responses. These results can be applied as an expert system for fine-tuning hearing aid fittings.
authors: National Centre for Audiology, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. lmj3@u.washington.edu
authors: Lorienne M
authors: LM
authors: Jenstad
authors: Dianne J
authors: DJ
authors: Van Tasell
authors: Chiquita
authors: C
authors: Ewert
mesh_terms: D012048:Correction of Hearing Impairment / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005103:Expert Systems; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006310:Hearing Aids / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception; D008297:Male; D010898:Pitch Perception; D013017:Sound Localization; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014584:User-Computer Interface