Stages of Change
Another pillar of the HEAR-aware app is the readiness, or SoC concept derived from the Transtheoretical model of health behavior change (SoC measures traditionally used in audiology are generic, that is, it is not specified what “taking action on hearing” means. In HEAR-aware, readiness is assumed to be TB-specific: an individual can be in different SoCs for different TBs. Hence, generic measures are not considered suitable (Lastly, tailoring intervention content to a recipient’s current SoC is assumed to help move them to higher SoCs (In the next sections, General Methods and Results are presented first. Subsequently, Specific Methods and Results per RQ are presented.