The effect of hearing aid treatment on health-related quality of life in older adults with hearing loss

Wolff, Anne; Houmøller, Sabina Storbjerg; Tsai, Li-Tang; Hougaard, Dan Dupont; Gaihede, Michael; Hammershøi, Dorte; Schmidt, Jesper Hvass

doi:10.1080/14992027.2023.2218994

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“…A recent study demonstrated how HAs impact on quality of life beyond 1 year of HA use. 37 The current study did not find any significant correlation between HA use and HHIE score at the Pre evaluation visit, but there was a significant reduction of the score after 1 year of HA use (24.5 versus 15.8, respectively). In agreement with the current study, a previous study reported a reduction of the HHIE score from 30.8 points before to 18 points after 6 months of HA use.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…For these reasons and given the age-related decline in sensoriality, it is important to use quality of life questionnaires that have a dimension that specifically addresses hearing, to eliminate any confounding factors. 37 Future research should evaluate the quality of life in these particular patients for a longer period of use (i.e. >1 year).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Factors correlated with hearing aids adherence in older adults: a prospective controlled study

Ghiselli,

Soncini,

Fabrizi

et al. 2024

J Int Med Res

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Objective To investigate which factors influence the adherence to hearing aid (HA) use in elderly patients with moderate-to-severe hearing loss. Methods This observational, prospective, single-centre study enrolled patients with moderate-to-severe hearing loss. They were evaluated before and 1 year after having either one or two HAs fitted. Results A total of 86 patients were enrolled in the study and of these 69.8% (60 of 86; USER group) continued to use their HA at 1 year after fitting; six patients had not continued their use (NON-USERS). The USER group was younger than the NON-USER group, but the difference was not significant. The USER group had a significantly better unaided auditory threshold at baseline than the NON-USER group. HA use resulted in improvements in speech audiometry and auditory threshold. There was also a maintenance of cognitive function in the USER group. Conclusion Use of HA for 1 year resulted in improved auditory performance and an absence of a deterioration of cognitive function. Trial registration: This research was retrospectively registered under no. NCT04333043 at ClinicalTrials.gov ( http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ ) on the 26 March 2020. This research has been registered with the Ethics Committee of the Area Vasta Emilia Nord under number 104, date of approval 17/07/2017.

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Factors correlated with hearing aids adherence in older adults: a prospective controlled study

Ghiselli,

Soncini,

Fabrizi

et al. 2024

J Int Med Res

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“…HA Fittings. Each participant was fitted with a pair of behind-the-ear HAs (Oticon Opn S1) using the manufacturer's proprietary fitting rule to resemble current clinical practice in Denmark (Wolff, 2019). Non-custom domes were chosen based on the participants' ear-canal sizes and the recommendations made by the fitting software.…”

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“…In current clinical practice, HAs are commonly fitted using manufacturer-recommended procedures (Anderson et al, 2018;Wolff, 2019), with the different manufacturers developing their own fitting rationales (Keidser et al, 2003;Sanders et al, 2015). In general, current fitting rationales are audiogram-based.…”

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Revisiting Auditory Profiling: Can Cognitive Factors Improve the Prediction of Aided Speech-in-Noise Outcome?

Christiansen

Fereczkowski

et al. 2022

Trends in Hearing

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Hearing aids (HA) are the most common type of rehabilitation treatment for age-related hearing loss. However, HA users often obtain limited benefit from their devices, particularly in noisy environments, and thus many HA candidates do not use them at all. A possible reason for this could be that current HA fittings are audiogram-based, that is, they neglect supra-threshold factors. In an earlier study, an auditory-profiling method was proposed as a basis for more personalized HA fittings. This method classifies HA users into four profiles that differ in terms of hearing sensitivity and supra-threshold hearing abilities. Previously, HA users belonging to these profiles showed significant differences in terms of speech recognition in noise but not subjective assessments of speech-in-noise (SIN) outcome. Moreover, large individual differences within some profiles were observed. The current study therefore explored if cognitive factors can help explain these differences and improve aided outcome prediction. Thirty-nine older HA users completed sets of auditory and SIN tests as well as two tablet-based cognitive measures (the Corsi block-tapping and trail-making tests). Principal component analyses were applied to extract the dominant sources of variance both within individual tests producing many variables and within the three types of tests. Multiple linear regression analyses performed on the extracted components showed that auditory factors were related to aided speech recognition in noise but not to subjective SIN outcome. Cognitive factors were unrelated to aided SIN outcome. Overall, these findings provide limited support for adding those two cognitive tests to the profiling of HA users.

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Interaction effect of self-efficacy and joint problems on hearing aid abandonment among older adults

Fuentes-López,

Luna-Monsalve,

Silva-Letelier

et al. 2024

International Journal of Audiology

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The effect of hearing aid treatment on health-related quality of life in older adults with hearing loss

Cited by 4 publications

References 49 publications

Factors correlated with hearing aids adherence in older adults: a prospective controlled study

Factors correlated with hearing aids adherence in older adults: a prospective controlled study

Revisiting Auditory Profiling: Can Cognitive Factors Improve the Prediction of Aided Speech-in-Noise Outcome?

Interaction effect of self-efficacy and joint problems on hearing aid abandonment among older adults

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