Preliminary support for a brief psychological intervention to improve first-time hearing aid use among adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Suboptimal hearing aid use extorts significant social, health, and economic costs. The aims of this study were to (1) test the novel hypothesis that the threat associated with being diagnosed with hearing loss could be ameliorated with a self-affirmation manipulation and (2) gauge the feasibility of deploying the manipulation in routine clinical practice.

Design

Parallel groups randomized controlled trial with 10-week follow-up.

Method

Fifty people, newly prescribed with a hearing aid, completed either a questionnaire that included a brief self-affirming exercise or an identical questionnaire with no self-affirming exercise. The main outcome measure was derived from data logging automatically stored by the hearing aid. Perceived threat ('anxiety about agein

SUBMITTER: Armitage CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5655699 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature