Gender and Hearing Aids: Patterns of Use and Determinants of Nonregular Use

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages e26-e37

  Staehelin, Katharina ^a   Bertoli, Sibylle ^a   Probst, Rudolf ^a   Schindler, Christian ^b   Dratva, Julia ^b   Stutz, Elisabeth Zemp ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 80255132937     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3182291f94     Document Type: Article

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