Item Response Theory Applied to Factors Affecting the Patient Journey Towards Hearing Rehabilitation

Overview

Journal Audiol Res

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Otorhinolaryngology

Date 2016 Dec 29

PMID 28028428

Citations 1

Authors

Michelene Chenault

Martijn Berger

Bernd Kremer

Lucien Anteunis

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Abstract

To develop a tool for use in hearing screening and to evaluate the patient journey towards hearing rehabilitation, responses to scales , and addressing respectively hearing aid stigma, experienced pressure from others; perceived hearing aid benefit were evaluated with The sample was comprised of 212 persons aged 55 years or more; 63 were hearing aid users, 64 with and 85 persons without hearing impairment according to guidelines for hearing aid reimbursement in the Netherlands. Bias was investigated relative to hearing aid use and hearing impairment within the differential test functioning framework. Items compromising model fit or demonstrating differential item functioning were dropped. The scale was reduced from 6 to 4, the from 7 to 4, and the scale from 5 to 4 items. This procedure resulted in bias-free scales ready for screening purposes and application to further understand the help-seeking process of the hearing impaired.

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