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Advantages Disadvantages
• Increased objectivity vs questioning
• High specificity
• Operator dependent
• Low sensitivity
• Imprecise
• Increased objectivity vs questioning
• High specificity
• Operator dependent
• Low sensitivity
• Rough and basic test
• Many modern watches no longer
audibly tick
• Patient administered or can be administered
by a nonaudiologist in clinical setting
• Increased objectivity from previous
categories
• Cost
• Limited availability
• Patient administered or can be administered
by a nonaudiologist in clinical setting
• Increased objectivity vs previous categories
• Cost
• Limited data (sensitivity and
specificity) availability
• Potentially more reflective of a person's
functional hearing ability in real-life
situations
• Patient administered or can be administered
by a nonaudiologist in clinical setting
• Increased objectivity vs previous categories
• Cost
• Limited data (sensitivity and
specificity) availability
• Cost-effective
• Accessible
• Increased individual interest in self
administered screening options with recently
passed over-the-counter (OTC) hearing
aid act
• App variability
• Data security
• Lack of user-centered design
(accounting for cognitive, vision
and dexterity impairments).
