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Factors Associated with Hearing Aid Adoption

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1.  Use of hearing aids has been found to: improve quality of life decrease psychological effects of hearing loss decrease socio-emotional effects of hearing loss all of the above

2.  Factors positively correlated with hearing aid uptake include: degree of hearing impairment awareness of communication difficulties self-reported hearing disability all of the above

3.  Identified factors that differentiate successful from unsuccessful users of hearing aids and found that the most successful hearing aid users had: binaural versus monaural fitting availability of social support premium technology advanced diagnostic testing

4.  The availability of social support was found to be the best predictor of hearing aid satisfaction, outperforming other known predictors of hearing aid satisfaction such as: reported benefit from hearing aids personality style of hearing aid all of the above

5.  What is perception? What we feel what we think A & B emotions

6.  We study social relationships in hearing care because: It matters who sits beside us in clinical appointments Significant others take the journey of hearing rehabilitation with us Significant others inform decision-making Significant others influence one's experience all of the above

7.  We study emotion in hearing care because: Hearing loss is a highly emotional experience (sadness, anger, embarrassment, frustration, etc) HAs do not adequately preserve emotion information in signals Implications for decision making all of the above

8.  Why study decision making in hearing care? Significant uncertainty about hearing care (trust, efficacy, cosmetics, cost, etc) Biases affect decision-making, including decisions about hearing care People can't always explain their behaviors and their motivations all of the above

9.  Influencers of hearing aid adoption include: the time of day hunger if the significant other attends the appointment all of the above

10.  Understanding factors that contribute to perceptions of HL is necessary to increase HA adoption including the: social world emotional world cognitive processes all of the above