Effect of Physician Consultation on Satisfaction With Hearing Aid Use: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Hearing loss is one of the most common chronic disabilities in older adults, yet reported rates of users' satisfaction with hearing aids are low. Some believe that physicians can provide patients who are pursuing a hearing aid fitting an impartial opinion that will improve hearing aid satisfaction.

Objective

To determine whether a physician consultation increased or decreased patients' satisfaction with hearing aids compared with patients undergoing hearing aid fitting with a dispensing audiologist alone.

Design, setting, and participants

This multicenter, parallel-group, standard regimen-controlled, randomized clinical trial was conducted in offices of audiologists, family physicians, and a hospital-based neurotologist in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canad

SUBMITTER: Zhao K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9121297 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature