Open AccessHearing Loss, Hearing Aid Use, and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults—Findings from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study (ARIC-NCS)
Author(s) -
Aishwarya Shukla,
Nicholas Reed,
Nicole Armstrong,
Frank R. Lin,
Jennifer A. Deal,
Adele M. Goman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology. series b, psychological sciences and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1758-5368
pISSN - 1079-5014
DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbz128
Subject(s) - odds ratio , medicine , neurocognitive , confidence interval , depression (economics) , hearing loss , logistic regression , center for epidemiologic studies depression scale , audiometry , depressive symptoms , psychiatry , audiology , cognition , economics , macroeconomics
Investigate the cross-sectional association between hearing loss (HL), hearing aid use, and depressive symptoms in community-dwelling older adults.