2024/02/27 by Meis, Markus, Krueger, Melanie, Radeloff, Andreas +6
#App #Ecological Momentary Assessment #Höranstrengung #Medicine and health #Patient Reported Outcome (Measurement) #Rehabilitation #app #ecological momentary assessment #ecological validity #listening effort #patient reported outcome (measurement) #rehabilitation #Ökologische Validität
paper · doi:10.3205/zaud000038
The Hearing in Daily Life (HearDL) app was developed for the everyday assessment of listening situations of bimodally fitted patients (cochlear implant (CI) on one side and hearing aid (HA) on the other). In addition, the data obtained can be used to provide user-centered guidance for (bimodal) hearing instrument fitting. The data collection of the app includes four areas: measurements of general satisfaction (quality of life and functional aspects) using CI guideline-compliant questionnaire procedures, adaptive measurement of listening effort as a tested, mobile version of ACALES (Adaptive CAtegorical Listening Effort Scaling), a new procedure for assessing individually significant everyday situations (Ecological Momentary Assessment, EMA), and two assessment tools (Voting Tool, VT) for A/B comparison of features/settings of the hearing instruments and for comparing HA and CI. In addition to the app, a dashboard was developed as a separate PC software for audiologists and hearing care professionals, in which a study planner including appointment entries and reminders for patients is integrated. The bidirectional data transfer between the app and the dashboard is wired. The HearDL app and dashboard are available as fully functional, technically mature and tested research versions in English and German for the operating system Android. The app can be used for research purposes, for clinical routine and for monitoring the success of rehabilitation measures as a tool for paperless and flexible data collection including a content management system for questionnaires and tasks.