[Factors influencing rehabilitation of sensorineural hearing loss with hearing aids] (original) (raw)

HNO, 2005

Abstract

A large proportion of older as well as younger patients do not use their hearing aids. Of the younger hearing impaired population, this occurs in the majority of those who do not benefit sufficiently from their hearing aids and, consequently, they face difficulties in their working and social life. Our aim was to evaluate whether a classical hearing aid adjustment is of sufficient predictive value to determine whether adequate rehabilitation in everyday and professional life will occur. A questionnaire was returned by 197 adult hearing impaired patients. Only 108 were using their hearing aids all the time; 57 rarely and 32 never. The main reason for this low rehabilitation rate proved to be inadequate amplification. At the workplace, insufficient speech discrimination came into play. Another important factor was dysacusis induced by specific noise signals. There was an intolerable acoustic feedback in 40% which could not be sufficiently alleviated. Taking these results into account,...

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