Journal article
Implementing Ecological Momentary Assessment in Audiological Research: Opportunities and Challenges
American journal of audiology, Vol.33(3), pp.648-673
09/2024
DOI: 10.1044/2024_AJA-23-00249
PMCID: PMC11427935
PMID: 38950171
Abstract
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a way to evaluate experiences in everyday life. It is a powerful research tool but can be complex and challenging for beginners. Application of EMA in audiological research brings with it opportunities and challenges that differ from other research disciplines. This tutorial discusses important considerations when conducting EMA studies in hearing care. While more research is needed to develop specific guidelines for the various potential applications of EMA in hearing research, we hope this article can alert hearing researchers new to EMA to pitfalls when using EMA and help strengthen their study design. The current article elaborates study design details, such as choice of participants, representativeness of the study period for participants' lives, and balancing participant burden with data requirements. Mobile devices and sensors to collect objective data on the acoustic situation are reviewed alongside different possibilities for EMA setups ranging from online questionnaires paired with a timer to proprietary apps that also have access to parameters of a hearing device. In addition to considerations for survey design, a list of questionnaire items from previous studies is provided. For each item, an example and a list of references are given. EMA typically provides data sets that are rich but also challenging in that they are noisy, and there is often unequal amount of data between participants. After recommendations on how to check the data for compliance, reactivity, and careless responses, methods for statistical analysis on the individual level and on the group level are discussed including special methods for direct comparison of hearing device programs.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Implementing Ecological Momentary Assessment in Audiological Research: Opportunities and Challenges
- Creators
- Nadja Schinkel-Bielefeld - WS (Germany)Louise Burke - University of NottinghamInga Holube - Jade University of Applied SciencesMaria Iankilevitch - University of VictoriaLorienne M. Jenstad - University of British ColumbiaDina Lelic - Lyngsø Marine (Denmark)Graham Naylor - University of NottinghamGurjit Singh - University of TorontoKarolina Smeds - WS (Germany)Petra von Gablenz - Jade University of Applied SciencesFlorian Wolters - WS (Germany)Yu-Hsiang Wu - Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Iowa, Iowa City
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of audiology, Vol.33(3), pp.648-673
- DOI
- 10.1044/2024_AJA-23-00249
- PMID
- 38950171
- PMCID
- PMC11427935
- NLM abbreviation
- Am J Audiol
- ISSN
- 1059-0889
- eISSN
- 1558-9137
- Publisher
- AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC
- Grant note
- Medical Research Council: MR/S003576/1, MR/X003620/1
Graham Naylor was supported by the Medical Research Council (Grants MR/S003576/1 and MR/X003620/1) . Petra von Gablenz was supported by the Research Fund of Jade University of Applied Sciences (SO-EMA) and by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture with funds from the governmental funding initiative zukunft.nieder-sachsen of the Volkswagen Foundation, project "Data-driven health (DEAL) ." The authors would like to thank Jacob Oleson for a guest talk in their workshop series and for feedback on an earlier draft of the Analysis section.
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 07/2024
- Date published
- 09/2024
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9984651158502771
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