What makes adults with hearing impairment take up hearing aids or communication programs and achieve successful outcomes?

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-93

  Laplante Lévesque, Ariane ^a,b   Hickson, Louise ^a   Worrall, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b OTICON A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SELF EFFICACY; SELF REPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855227201     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31822c26dc     Document Type: Article

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