Hearing-aid assembly management among adults from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: Toward the feasibility of self-fitting hearing aids

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 385-393

  Convery, Elizabeth ^a,b   Keidser, Gitte ^a,b   Caposecco, Andrea ^b,c   Swanepoel, De Wet ^d,e,f   Wong, Lena L N ^g   Shen, Eed ^g  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Melbourne   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e EAR SCIENCE INSTITUTE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Amplification; Developing countries; Health literacy; Hearing aids; Self fitting hearing aids

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINA; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEARING AID; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; SELF CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERY ELDERLY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINA; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEARING AIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877607260     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2013.773407     Document Type: Article

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