Music listening and hearing aids: perspectives from audiologists and their patients
Greasley A, Crook H, Fulford R
International journal of audiology · 30 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Grants
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/M00368X/1); Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/M00368X/1)
Based on 1 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2020-07-02 · Int J Audiol · vol. 59 · issue 9 · pp. 694–706
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Cited
- 47 citations · more than 75% of similar papers · 1.1× the field average
- References
- 29 works
- Access
- Open access (hybrid journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation · Noise Effects and Management · Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- Audiologist, Hearing aid, Active listening, Audiology, Medicine, Psychology, Hearing loss, Communication
- MeSH
- humans, hearing aids, auditory perception, music, adult, aged, aged, 80 and over, middle aged, young adult, surveys and questionnaires, audiologists
3 authors
From GB
- Alinka Greasley · correspondingUniversity of Leeds; Leeds College of Music
- Harriet CrookSheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Robert FulfordUniversity of Leeds; Leeds College of Music
Abstract
Objective: Two studies explored hearing-aid user and audiologist experiences of hearing-aid use and fitting for music in the UK.Design and sample: One-hundred-seventy-six hearing-aid users (age range: 21-93 years; mean: 60.56 years) answered a 4-item questionnaire on music listening difficulties and discussions about music in clinic. 99 audiologists (age range: 22-71 years; mean: 39.18 years) answered a 36-item questionnaire on the frequency and type of discussions, training received, and strategies for optimizing hearing aids for music. Closed and open-ended questions were included.Results: Sixty seven percent of hearing-aid users reported some degree of difficulty listening to music with hearing aids, and 58% had never discussed music in clinic. 50% of audiologists surveyed asked 1 in 5 (or fewer) patients about music and 67% had never received music-specific training. Audiologist training on music was significantly associated with confidence in providing advice, confidence in programming hearing aids for music, and programming hearing aids for music for a greater number of patients.Conclusions: Hearing-aid users' and audiologists' experiences of music remain mixed. In the absence of formalised training in optimizing hearing aids for music, there is a need for systematic research relating fitting strategies to clinical outcomes and the development of guidelines for audiologist training.
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