Hearing loss is common in older adults. Patients, clinicians, and health care staff often do
not recognize hearing loss, particularly in its early stages, and it is undertreated. Age-related …

Current approaches to the measurement of hearing aid benefit typically use clinical or
laboratory-based speech perception tests or retrospective self-report surveys. However …

Purpose: More affordable hearing aids are now available due to over-the-counter (OTC)
hearing aid regulations. Although laboratory studies have validated many OTC hearing …

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 …

Objective: To report a robust measure of the proportion of adults who do not use their
hearing aids. Design: Data on hearing aid use was extracted from national household …

Objectives: To gather perspectives of hearing aid owners and hearing healthcare clinicians
with regard to problems that arise after hearing aid fitting and use these perspectives to …

Background The rising prevalence of hearing loss is a global health concern. Professional
hearing services are largely absent within low-and middle-income countries where …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the rate of and factors contributing to non-
adherence to hearing-aid use in the UK National Health Service. Design: A cross-sectional …

The first goal of this study was to describe acoustic properties across an entire day in each of
three educational environments: daycare (pre-kindergarten), an elementary school …

Objective IOI-HA response data are conventionally analysed assuming that the ordinal
responses have interval-scale properties. This study critically considers this assumption and …