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Session Overview: Smartphone healthcare technologies (mhealth) have the power to personalise hearing healthcare and increase user-interaction, to provide a person-centred approach. A trial of 44 adults with MMHL using smartphone-connected hearing aids in the real-world was analysed based on the COM-B model. A major advantage was that the smartphone app gave the user control to fine-tune their aids to meet their individual needs (capability). By controlling the sound quality, patients participated more in conversations, and stigma was also reduced (opportunity). Empowerment emerged as a key theme (motivation), as patients could control and use their listening devices how and when they wanted to self-manage their hearing loss.

 

Presenter(s): Melanie Ferguson

 

Event: Trans Tasman Conference 2020