Feasibility of the HEAR-aware App for Hearing Loss Self-Management: A Nonrandomized Intervention Study to Examine Intervention Acceptability and the Stages-of-Change Concept.

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The HEAR-aware project targets adults ≥50 years who were recently diagnosed with hearing loss and declined hearing aids, but were open for support via a smartphone app on different target behaviors (TBs). The HEAR-aware app, based on Ecological Momentary Assessment and Ecological Momentary Intervention (EMA, EMI), contains educational materials ("snippets") tailored partly to the user's experienced listening situations. The app aims to increase adults' TB-specific readiness to take action on hearing problems. The present study focused on examining feasibility regarding three novel aspects: (1) the app's acceptability, mainly regarding its EMA and EMI elements (compliance, usability, usefulness, satisfaction), (2) psychometric properties of 10 new TB-specific stages-of-ch

SUBMITTER: Pronk M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10718215 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Feb 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature