Tahden, Maike A. S. and Gieseler, Anja and Meis, Markus and Wagener, Kirsten Carola and Colonius, Hans (2018) What keeps older adults with hearing impairment from adopting hearing aids? Trends in hearing, 22. p. 233121651880973. ISSN 2331-2165
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to compare elderly individuals who are hearing impaired but inexperienced in using hearing aids (hearing aid non-users; HA-NU) with their aided counterparts (hearing aid users; HA-U) across various auditory and nonauditory measures in order to identify differences that might be associated with the low hearing aid uptake rate. We have drawn data of 72 HA-NU and 139 HA-U with a mild-to-moderate hearing loss, and matched these two groups on the degree of hearing impairment, age, and sex. First, HA-NU and HA-U were compared across 65 auditory, cognitive, health-specific, and socioeconomic test measures as well as measures assessing technology commitment. Second, a logistic regression approach was performed to identify relevant predictors for using hearing aids. Finally, we conducted a sensitivity analysis for the matching approach. Group comparisons indicated that HA-NU perceive their hearing problem as less severe than their aided counterparts. Furthermore, HA-NU showed worse technology commitment and lower socioeconomic status than HA-U. The logistic regression revealed self-reported hearing performance, technology commitment, and the socioeconomic and health status as the most important predictors for using hearing aids.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Publiziert mit Hilfe des DFG-geförderten Open Access-Publikationsfonds der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | hearing loss, aging, technologies, socioeconomic status, cognition |
| Subjects: | Philosophy and psychology > Psychology Science and mathematics > Physics Technology, medicine, applied sciences > Medicine and health |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Science > Department of Psychology |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2019 08:49 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2019 07:53 |
| URI: | https://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/id/eprint/4184 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-42659 |
| DOI: | doi:10.1177/2331216518809737 |
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