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Article

Item Response Theory Applied to Factors Affecting the Patient Journey towards Hearing Rehabilitation

by
Michelene Chenault
1,2,3,*,
Martijn Berger
4,
Bernd Kremer
1,5 and
Lucien Anteunis
1,5
1
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2
Department of Health, Ethics and Society, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
3
CAPHRI (School for Public Health and Primary Care), Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
4
Department of Methodology and Statistics, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
5
School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Audiol. Res. 2016, 6(2), 159; https://doi.org/10.4081/audiores.2016.159
Submission received: 1 July 2016 / Revised: 1 November 2016 / Accepted: 2 November 2016 / Published: 30 November 2016
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Abstract

To develop a tool for use in hearing screening and to evaluate the patient journey towards hearing rehabilitation, responses to the hearing aid rehabilitation questionnaire scales aid stigma, pressure, and aid unwanted addressing respectively hearing aid stigma, experienced pressure from others; perceived hearing aid benefit were evaluated with item response theory. The sample was comprised of 212 persons aged 55 years or more; 63 were hearing aid users, 64 with and 85 persons without hearing impairment according to guidelines for hearing aid reimbursement in the Netherlands. Bias was investigated relative to hearing aid use and hearing impairment within the differential test functioning framework. Items compromising model fit or demonstrating differential item functioning were dropped. The aid stigma scale was reduced from 6 to 4, the pressure scale from 7 to 4, and the aid unwanted scale from 5 to 4 items. This procedure resulted in bias-free scales ready for screening purposes and application to further understand the help-seeking process of the hearing impaired.
Keywords: Item response theory; graded response model; hearing rehabilitation Item response theory; graded response model; hearing rehabilitation

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Chenault, M.; Berger, M.; Kremer, B.; Anteunis, L. Item Response Theory Applied to Factors Affecting the Patient Journey towards Hearing Rehabilitation. Audiol. Res. 2016, 6, 159. https://doi.org/10.4081/audiores.2016.159

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Chenault M, Berger M, Kremer B, Anteunis L. Item Response Theory Applied to Factors Affecting the Patient Journey towards Hearing Rehabilitation. Audiology Research. 2016; 6(2):159. https://doi.org/10.4081/audiores.2016.159

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Chenault, Michelene, Martijn Berger, Bernd Kremer, and Lucien Anteunis. 2016. "Item Response Theory Applied to Factors Affecting the Patient Journey towards Hearing Rehabilitation" Audiology Research 6, no. 2: 159. https://doi.org/10.4081/audiores.2016.159

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Chenault, M., Berger, M., Kremer, B., & Anteunis, L. (2016). Item Response Theory Applied to Factors Affecting the Patient Journey towards Hearing Rehabilitation. Audiology Research, 6(2), 159. https://doi.org/10.4081/audiores.2016.159

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