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The trend in adoption of hearing aids following changes in provision policy in South Korea

Scientific Reports, 2022
The Korean government started to cover part of the price of hearing aids ($200) for individuals with hearing disabilities in 1997, and the reimbursement for a hearing aid increased in 2005 ($300) and again in 2015 ($1000).
Hayoung Byun, Eun Mi Kim, Inah Kim, Seung Hwan Lee, Jae Ho Chung   +4 more
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Real-World Hearing Aid Usage Patterns and Smartphone Connectivity

Frontiers in Digital Health, 2021
Data for monitoring individual hearing aid usage has historically been limited to retrospective questionnaires or data logged intrinsically in the hearing aid cumulatively over time (e. g., days or more).
Jeppe Høy Christensen, Gabrielle H. Saunders, Lena Havtorn, Niels H. Pontoppidan   +3 more
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Emotional Responses to Non-Speech Sounds for Hearing-aid and Bimodal Cochlear-Implant Listeners

Trends in Hearing, 2022
The purpose of this project was to evaluate differences between groups and device configurations for emotional responses to non-speech sounds. Three groups of adults participated: 1) listeners with normal hearing with no history of device use, 2) hearing
Marina M. Tawdrous, Kristen L. D'Onofrio, René Gifford, Erin M. Picou   +3 more
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Clustering Users Based on Hearing Aid Use: An Exploratory Analysis of Real-World Data

Frontiers in Digital Health, 2021
While the assessment of hearing aid use has traditionally relied on subjective self-reported measures, smartphone-connected hearing aids enable objective data logging from a large number of users.
Alessandro Pasta, Alessandro Pasta, Tiberiu-Ioan Szatmari, Tiberiu-Ioan Szatmari, Jeppe Høy Christensen, Kasper Juul Jensen, Niels Henrik Pontoppidan, Kang Sun, Kang Sun, Jakob Eg Larsen   +9 more
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Moderate Reverberation Does Not Increase Subjective Fatigue, Subjective Listening Effort, or Behavioral Listening Effort in School-Aged Children

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Background noise and reverberation levels in typical classrooms have negative effects on speech recognition, but their effects on listening effort and fatigue are less well understood.
Erin M. Picou, Erin M. Picou, Brianna Bean, Brianna Bean, Steven C. Marcrum, Todd A. Ricketts, Benjamin W. Y. Hornsby   +6 more
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Hearing aid Experiences of Adult Hearing aid Owners During and After Fitting: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies

Trends in Hearing, 2022
There has been an increasing number of qualitative studies exploring the experiences and perceptions of adult hearing aid owners throughout their hearing aid journey.
Ilze Oosthuizen, Vinaya Manchaiah, Stefan Launer, De Wet Swanepoel   +3 more
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Mining of Audiology Patient Records: Factors Influencing the Choice of Hearing Aid Type [PDF]

, 2012
Background This paper describes the analysis of a database of over 180,000 patient records, collected from over 23,000 patients, by the hearing aid clinic at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK. These records consist of audiograms (graphs
Oakes, Michael, Anwar Muhammad N, Anwar, Muhammad Naveed, Anwar, M N, Oakes Michael P, Oakes, Michael Philip, Anwar, Naveed, Michael P Oakes, Muhammad N Anwar   +8 more
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Item response theory applied to factors affecting the patient journey towards hearing rehabilitation

Audiology Research, 2016
To develop a tool for use in hearing screening and to evaluate the patient journey towards hearing rehabilitation, responses to the hearing aid rehabilitation questionnaire scales aid stigma, pressure, and aid unwanted addressing respectively hearing aid
Michelene Chenault, Martijn Berger, Bernd Kremer, Lucien Anteunis   +3 more
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Decision support system for the selection of an ITE or a BTE hearing aid [PDF]

, 2013
The purpose of this research is to mine a large set of heterogeneous audiology data to create a decision support system (DSS) to choose between two hearing aid types (ITE and BTE aid).
Anwar, Muhammad Naveed, Oakes, Michael, Oakes, Michael Philip, Anwar, Naveed   +3 more
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Increasing Pediatric Hearing Aid Use: Considerations for Clinical Practice

, 2023
Purpose: Hearing aid use can be variable for young children, and inconsistent wear time can undermine spoken language development. This study explored the effectiveness of hearing aid data logging (DL) awareness and coaching sessions on increasing hours ...
San Miguel, Guadalupe G., Muñoz, Karen, Kali Markle, Twohig, Michael P., Markle, Kali, Guadalupe G. San Miguel, Karen Muñoz, Michael P. Twohig   +7 more
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