Personal Sound Amplification Products vs a Conventional Hearing Aid for Speech Understanding in Noise

Nicholas S Reed; Joshua Betz; Nicole Kendig; Margaret Korczak; Frank R Lin

doi:10.1001/jama.2017.6905

Personal Sound Amplification Products vs a Conventional Hearing Aid for Speech Understanding in Noise

JAMA. 2017 Jul 4;318(1):89-90. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.6905.

Authors

Nicholas S Reed¹, Joshua Betz², Nicole Kendig³, Margaret Korczak³, Frank R Lin¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology, and Deaf Studies, Towson University, Towson, Maryland.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study compared functional hearing with use of personal sound amplification products vs conventional hearing aid among older adults with mild to moderate hearing loss.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Equipment Design
Female
Hearing Aids*
Hearing Loss / rehabilitation*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Speech Perception*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding