Assembly and Insertion of a Self-Fitting Hearing Aid: Design of Effective Instruction Materials

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 184-195

  Caposecco, Andrea ^a,b   Hickson, Louise ^a,b   Meyer, Carly ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b HEARing Cooperative Research Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

health literacy; older adults; patient education; self fitting hearing aid; written instructions

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; COMPREHENSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH LITERACY; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; READING; REVIEW; SELF CARE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDARD; WRITING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENCHMARKING; COMPREHENSION; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PAMPHLETS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; READING; SELF CARE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WRITING;

EID: 84860810798     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084713811430837     Document Type: Article

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