Benefit on daily listening with technological advancements: comparison of basic and premium category hearing aids.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The aim of the study was to compare the user-rated benefit of two categories of hearing aids, mainly the basic and premium categories of hearing aids.

Methods

A questionnaire was administered on 102 hearing aids users (47 basic and 55 premium category users) with severity of hearing loss ranging from mild to moderately severe sensorineural hearing loss. The questionnaire administered was divided into mainly seven subscales which included speech intelligibility in quiet and in noise, ease of communication, the efficiency of noise reduction, localization, quality of music perception and cost effectiveness. The effect of duration of daily usage of hearing aids on performance among these different subscales was also assessed.

Results

Ease of communication was rate

SUBMITTER: Prakash P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8762635 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature