Study of hearing aid effectiveness and patient satisfaction

Title Hearing Aid Satisfaction

Hearing aid satisfaction is a pleasurable emotional experience as an outcome of evaluation of performance. Many tools have been designed to measure the degree of satisfaction overall, or along the dimensions of cost, appearance, acoustic benefit, comfort, and service. Various studies have used these tools to examine the relationships between satisfaction and other factors. Findings are not alwa...

Auditory profiling and hearing-aid satisfaction in hearing-aid candidates.

INTRODUCTION Hearing-impaired (HI) listeners often complain about difficulties communicating in the presence of background noise, although audibility may be restored by a hearing-aid (HA). The audiogram typically forms the basis for HA fitting, i.e. people with similar audiograms are given the same prescription by default. This study aimed at identifying clinically relevant tests that may serve...

Feature Hearing Aid Services and Satisfaction

Survey on Satisfaction Level With Hearing Aid in the Daily Life of Elderly Hearing Impaired Population

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to investigate satisfaction levels with hearing aids in daily life of older adult users, in addition to associated factors. Methods & Materials: In this cross sectional study, 32 subjects with moderate to severe sensory neural hearing loss (mean age; 63.5±9.8 Yrs) and different socio-economic status, referred to private practice audiology clinic (...

Satisfaction of Elderly Hearing Aid Users

Introduction The impact of auditory sensory deprivation in the life of an individual is enormous because it not only affects one's ability to properly understand auditory information, but also the way people relate to their environment and their culture. The monitoring of adult and elderly subjects with hearing loss is intended to minimize the difficulties and handicaps that occur as a conseque...