Management of Hearing Aid Assembly by Urban-Dwelling Hearing-Impaired Adults in a Developed Country: Implications for a Self-Fitting Hearing Aid

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 196-208

  Convery, Elizabeth ^a,b   Keidser, Gitte ^a,b   Hartley, Lisa ^a,b   Caposecco, Andrea ^b,c   Hickson, Louise ^b,c   Meyer, Carly ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

amplification; cognition; health literacy; hearing aid management; hearing aids; self fitting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH LITERACY; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PATIENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; SELF CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDARD; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PAMPHLETS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; READING; SELF CARE; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; URBAN HEALTH; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860828106     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084713811431694     Document Type: Article

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