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Clinical Rehabilitation
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Qualitative reports of hearing aid benefit

Sdg Stephens

Welsh Hearing Institute, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

R. Meredith

Welsh Hearing Institute, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

A simple open-ended questionnaire asking about the benefits and shortcomings of their hearing aid fitting was administered to a series of elderly patients over three months after discharge from a rehabilitation programme. Two-thirds of their benefit responses indicated a reduction in disability and one-third a reduction in handicap. The commonest benefits were with the television, general and one to one conversation and hearing in church and chapel. Main drawbacks were acoustical and practical with few reporting psychological or cosmetic problems. It is concluded that this approach has useful potential in the assessment of hearing impaired patients following rehabilitation and could form a part of the audit process.

Clinical Rehabilitation, Vol. 5, No. 3, 225-229 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/026921559100500309
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