Prediction of Hearing Help Seeking to Design a Recommendation Module of an mHealth Hearing App: Intensive Longitudinal Study of Feature Importance Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile health (mHealth) solutions can improve the quality, accessibility, and equity of health services, fostering early rehabilitation. For individuals with hearing loss, mHealth apps might be designed to support the decision-making processes in auditory diagnostics and provide treatment recommendations to the user (eg, hearing aid need). For some individuals, such an mHealth app might be the first contact with a hearing diagnostic service and should motivate users with hearing loss to seek professional help in a targeted manner. However, personalizing treatment recommendations is only possible by knowing the individual's profile regarding the outcome of interest.

Objective

This study aims to characterize individuals who are more or less prone to seeking professi

SUBMITTER: Angonese G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11347899 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature