From: eHealth and the hearing aid adult patient journey: a state-of-the-art review
Service | Platform | Records | Details | Phases |
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(1) Education and information | ||||
(1.1) HL and HA information | Offline | – | – | – |
Internet | Peddie and Kelly-Campbell [50] | Use of the Internet to search for hearing and hearing health information | Pre-fitting, Post-fitting | |
Rothpletz et al. [62] | Use of websites to find information on HL, HAs, assistive technologies, communication strategies, and auditory training | Pre-fitting | ||
Thoren et al. [54] | Internet-based information for patients with HA | Post-fitting | ||
Mobile | – | – | – | |
(1.2) Counselling and patient education | Offline | DVD- and PC-based multimedia educational support for patients (Reusable Learning Objects including videos, photos, sounds, testimonials, animations, illustrations, and subtitles) | Post-fitting | |
Lundberg et al. [57] | Telephone-based consultations as a complement to a home-based educational program for HA users (10–15 min at the end of each week) | Post-fitting | ||
Internet | Internet-based multimedia educational support for patients (Reusable Learning Objects including videos, photos, sounds, testimonials, animations, illustrations and subtitles) | Post-fitting | ||
Malmberg et al. [58] | Internet-based educational program for HA users (reading, home tasks, counselling) | Post-fitting | ||
Manchaiah et al. [63] | Internet-based pre-fitting counselling for persons with HL (30 days program based on the ‘patient journey’ model) | Pre-fitting | ||
Preminger and Rothpletz [59] | Design considerations for Internet-based educational programs (education, self-management practice) | Post-fitting | ||
Internet-based counselling and education for patients with HA (one chapter per week, 5 weeks, home tasks, weekly professional feedback) | Post-fitting | |||
Vitti et al. [61] | Internet-based education for patients with HA | Post-fitting | ||
Mobile | – | – | – | |
(1.3) Group discussions and forums | Offline | – | – | – |
Internet | Malmberg et al. [58] | Internet-based interaction with peers for patients with HA (unmoderated discussion forum) | Post-fitting | |
Preminger and Rothpletz [59] | Design considerations for Internet-based educational programs (group discussions and peer support) | Post-fitting | ||
Internet-based interaction with peers for patients with HAs (online discussion group, one topic per week, 5 weeks) | Post-fitting | |||
Mobile | – | – | – | |
(2) Screening and assessment | ||||
(2.1) Pure-tone audiometry | Offline | Coco et al. [64] | Community-based pure-tone audiometry with an automated portable diagnostic audiometer | Pre-fitting |
Internet | – | – | – | |
Mobile | – | – | – | |
(2.2) Speech-audiometry | Offline | – | – | – |
Internet | Blamey et al. [65] | Internet-based speech test for hearing assessment and HA fitting (50 CVC words at 65 dBA) | Pre-fitting, Fitting | |
Mobile | Sohn et al. [66] | Smartphone-based speech test for hearing assessment and compensation (4 phonemes at 20–70 dB SPL) | Pre-fitting, Fitting | |
(2.3) Self-assessment, PROM/PREM | Offline | – | – | – |
Internet | Thoren et al. [67] | Online administration of standardized questionnaires in patients with HL (HHIE. IOI-HA, SADL, and HADS) | Pre-fitting, Fitting | |
Mobile | Galvez et al. [68] | Personal Digital Assistant for Ecological Momentary Assessment (12-items survey) | Post-fitting | |
(3) Hearing rehabilitation | ||||
(3.1) Sound enhancement | Offline | – | – | – |
Internet | – | – | – | |
Mobile | Amlani et al. [69] | Smartphone-based sound enhancement (user control over frequency response and gain) | Fitting | |
Sohn et al. [66] | Smartphone-based sound enhancement for hearing compensation (64-channels gain and compression) | Fitting | ||
(3.2) HA control and fitting | Offline | – | – | – |
Internet | Ferrari and Bernandez-Braga [70] | Remote probe microphone for real ear measurement in HA fitting | Fitting | |
Remote HA fitting (video-conferencing, remote computer access, remote digital HA fitting) | Fitting | |||
Mobile | Aldaz et al. [72] | Smartphone-based personalized system for HA control (volume, program, microphone directionality, noise reduction) | Fitting | |
Convery et al. [73] | Tablet- and Smartphone-based self-fitting of HAs (pure-tone self-testing at 3 or 3 + 3 frequencies, program control) | Fitting | ||
Panahi et al. [74] | Smartphone-based adaptive speech enhancement for HAs | Fitting | ||
(3.3) Auditory and cognitive training | Offline | Chisolm et al. [75] | PC-based auditory training with the Listening and Communication Enhancement program (30 min/day, 5 days/week, 4 weeks) | Post-fitting |
PC-based auditory training (phoneme discrimination in quiet: 15 min/day, 6 days/week for 4 weeks; phoneme discrimination in noise: 30 min/day for 7 days) | Post-fitting | |||
PC-based working memory training (verbal and visuospatial working memory and storage tasks: 35–45 min/day, 5 days/week, 5 weeks) | Post-fitting | |||
Olson et al. [78] | DVD-based auditory training with the Listening and Communication Enhancement program (30 min/day, 5 days/week, 4 weeks) | Post-fitting | ||
Rishiq et al. [79] | PC-based auditory training (audio-visual recordings of wise or witty sayings and crossword puzzle: 30 min/day, 5 days/week, 4 weeks) | Post-fitting | ||
Saunders et al. [80] | DVD- and PC-based auditory training with the Listening and Communication Enhancement program (30 min/day, 5 days/week, 4 weeks) | Post-fitting | ||
Internet | Abrams et al. [81] | Internet-based audio-visual auditory training (30 min/day, 5 days/week, 3 weeks) | Post-fitting | |
Internet-based working memory training (verbal and visuospatial working memory and storage tasks: 35–45 min/day, 5 days/week, 5 weeks) | Post-fitting | |||
Vitti et al. [61] | Internet-based auditory training (30 min/day, 5 days/week, 4 weeks) | Post-fitting | ||
Mobile | – | – | – | |
(4) General (tele-audiology) | ||||
Offline | – | – | – | |
Internet | Eikelboom and Swanepoel [82] | Remote health and hearing services (e.g., video-conferencing, service delivery, e-mail use, Skype) | Pre-fitting, Fitting, Post-fitting | |
Pearce et al. [83] | Remote hearing services (hearing assessment, HA fitting, hearing rehabilitation) | Pre-fitting, Fitting, Post-fitting | ||
Pross et al. [84] | Remote hearing services (video-conferencing, remote probe microphone and HA fitting) | Pre-fitting, Fitting, Post-fitting | ||
Mobile | – | – | – |