Open AccessFactors Affecting Hearing Aid Adoption by Adults With High-Frequency Hearing Loss: The Beaver Dam Offspring Study
Author(s) -
Jacqueline M Weycker,
Lauren K Dillard,
Alex Pinto,
Mary Fischer,
Karen J. Cruickshanks,
Ted S. Tweed
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
american journal of audiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.688
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1558-9137
pISSN - 1059-0889
DOI - 10.1044/2021_aja-21-00050
Subject(s) - hearing aid , audiology , medicine , confidence interval , hearing loss , cumulative incidence , incidence (geometry) , proportional hazards model , hazard ratio , ototoxicity , demography , cohort , physics , cisplatin , chemotherapy , sociology , optics
Hearing loss (HL) is common among middle-age and older adults, but hearing aid adoption is low. The purpose of this study was to measure the 10-year incidence of hearing aid adoption in a sample of primarily middle-age adults with high-frequency HL and identify factors associated with hearing aid adoption.