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The Power of the Demo: An Innovative Field Study Offers a New Perspective

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1.  What is the role of the hearing care professional in the ideal hearing aid selection and pre-fitting process?
  1. To involve the patient's family in the process.
  2. To know the patient's unique needs and lifestyle.
  3. To assess what hearing aid the patient can afford.
  4. To act as the hearing, technology and fitting expert.
2.  Why is it important that hearing aid demos are carefully thought out and practiced?
  1. Patient perception is affected by the method and confidence of the presentation.
  2. Patients always purchase hearing aids when a demo is done.
  3. A positive first impression with the hearing aid can help the patient focus on other information provided by the hearing care professional.
  4. Both A and C
3.  Which of the following is NOT a benefit of conducting an effective hearing aid demo?
  1. Create a "wow factor" for the patient.
  2. Expose patients to the initial sound quality of listening to hearing aids.
  3. Demonstrate feature reliability in a contrived laboratory setting.
  4. Involves the patient in the fitting/selection process
4.  Which of the following are true of a properly conducted HCP hearing aid listening experience?
  1. Provides a practical way for HCPs to listen to different hearing aids.
  2. Provides HCPs the opportunity to judge differing sound quality between manufacturers.
  3. Both A & B
  4. None of the above
5.  Which is true of the music listening scenario?
  1. All of the non-ReSound brands scored equally.
  2. There was a greater amount of variability in scores among all brands.
  3. ReSound hearing aids were ranked significantly higher for subjective sound quality than the other brands.
  4. All of the above
6.  Speech intelligibility performance in noise with ReSound hearing aids was:
  1. Significantly higher than those of the other brands.
  2. Significantly lower than those of the other brands.
  3. The same compared to the other brands.
  4. Were too convoluted to calculate.
7.  Which is true of the localization condition results?
  1. There was a wide range of variability in results.
  2. The results suggest some found it very difficult while others found it easy.
  3. Performance with ReSound hearing aids was significant higher compared to the other brands .
  4. All of the above
8.  Which of the following is true?
  1. Only the opinion of the HCP matters during hearing aid selection.
  2. The professional interaction between an HCP and patient creates a positive bias towards uptake of hearing aids.
  3. Brand image is not a factor in the HCP's choice of hearing aid brand.
  4. HCPs have no effect on a patient's decision to try hearing aids.
9.  Results from HCPs with hearing impairment suggest that:
  1. HCPs can expect their patients to detect differences in sound quality across multiple hearing aids.
  2. Some patients can perform the speech intelligibility in noise task, but it may be too difficult for everyone.
  3. All hearing aids were rated the same across brands.
  4. Both A & B
10.  What evidence supports using hearing aid demos in the hearing aid fitting and selection process?
  1. Patient expectations to hearing aids may predict satisfaction, and demos can help to align expectations.
  2. Pre-fitting counseling on expectations results in better outcomes than no counseling both with or without hearing aid demos .
  3. Patients may find hearing aid demos enjoyable as a supplement to pre-fitting counseling.
  4. All of the above