Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults

MA Ferguson, PT Kitterick, LY Chong… - Cochrane Database …, 2017 - cochranelibrary.com
Background The main clinical intervention for mild to moderate hearing loss is the provision
of hearing aids. These are routinely offered and fitted to those who seek help for hearing …

Social-emotional well-being and adult hearing loss: clinical recommendations

BHB Timmer, RJ Bennett, J Montano… - … Journal of Audiology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: Best-practice in audiological rehabilitation takes a holistic client-and family-centred
approach and considers hearing care in the context of personal well-being. Hearing loss not …

A good practice guide for translating and adapting hearing-related questionnaires for different languages and cultures

DA Hall, S Zaragoza Domingo… - … Journal of Audiology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: To raise awareness and propose a good practice guide for translating and
adapting any hearing-related questionnaire to be used for comparisons across populations …

Systematic review of outcome domains and instruments used in clinical trials of tinnitus treatments in adults

DA Hall, H Haider, AJ Szczepek, P Lau, S Rabau… - Trials, 2016 - Springer
Background There is no evidence-based guidance to facilitate design decisions for
confirmatory trials or systematic reviews investigating treatment efficacy for adults with …

A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the benefits of a multimedia educational program for first-time hearing aid users

M Ferguson, M Brandreth, W Brassington… - Ear and …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The aims of this study were to (1) develop a series of short interactive videos (or
reusable learning objects [RLOs]) covering a broad range of practical and psychosocial …

The global hearing therapeutic pipeline: 2021

B Isherwood, AC Gonçalves, R Cousins, R Holme - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
Hearing loss is a serious condition affecting more than 1.5 billion people globally. Many
affected people benefit from the use of devices, such as hearing aids, but these do not …

The relationship of speech intelligibility with hearing sensitivity, cognition, and perceived hearing difficulties varies for different speech perception tests

A Heinrich, H Henshaw, MA Ferguson - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Listeners vary in their ability to understand speech in noisy environments. Hearing
sensitivity, as measured by pure-tone audiometry, can only partly explain these results, and …

A data-driven synthesis of research evidence for domains of hearing loss, as reported by adults with hearing loss and their communication partners

V Vas, MA Akeroyd, DA Hall - Trends in hearing, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
A number of assessment tools exist to evaluate the impact of hearing loss, with little
consensus among researchers as to either preference or psychometric adequacy. The item …

Evidence-based interventions for adult aural rehabilitation: that was then, this is now

M Ferguson, D Maidment, H Henshaw… - Seminars in …, 2019 - thieme-connect.com
More than a decade after Arthur Boothroyd published “Adult Aural Rehabilitation: What Is It
and Does It Work?,” the four cornerstones of adult aural rehabilitation are re-examined in …

Prediction of successful hearing aid treatment in first-time and experienced hearing aid users: Using the International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids

SS Houmøller, A Wolff, S Möller, VK Narne… - … Journal of Audiology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objective Primarily to understand whether clinically relevant factors affect the International
Outcome Inventory (IOI-HA) scores and to examine if IOI-HA scores improve when renewing …