Lee Dong-Hee, Noh Heil
* Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea , Uijeongbu City, Gyeonggi-do , Korea.
Int J Audiol. 2015;54(9):613-9. doi: 10.3109/14992027.2015.1023902. Epub 2015 Mar 27.
To determine the use of a hearing aid at six months post-fitting and to evaluate the predictors of its ongoing use in Korean adults with unilateral hearing impairment (HI).
Retrospective study at a secondary referral hospital over a 15-year period.
This study analysed 119 adults with unilateral HI who had been recommended for hearing amplification (55 men and 64 women, mean age, 58.0 ± 11.7 years). Six months after the fitting, all of the participants were surveyed regarding subsequent decisions and actions about obtaining hearing aids.
General uptake rate for a hearing aid was 68.1% (58.0% of participants surveyed were successful users, and 10.1% were intermittent users). The most significant parameter associated with hearing-aid use was social and/or work activities (R(2) = 0.457), and the significant predictors for successful hearing-aid use were social and/or work activities and method of signal processing (discriminatory power = 56.3%).
Six months post-fitting, 68.1% of Korean adults with unilateral HI who had agreed to try a hearing aid continued to use it regularly. The predictors for hearing-aid use six months post-fitting included social and/or work activities and digital signal processing.
确定单侧听力障碍（HI）的韩国成年人在助听器验配后6个月时助听器的使用情况，并评估其持续使用的预测因素。
在一家二级转诊医院进行的为期15年的回顾性研究。
本研究分析了119名单侧HI且被推荐使用助听器放大设备的成年人（55名男性和64名女性，平均年龄58.0±11.7岁）。验配6个月后，对所有参与者就后续获取助听器的决定和行动进行了调查。
助听器的总体使用率为68.1%（接受调查的参与者中58.0%为成功使用者，10.1%为间歇使用者）。与助听器使用相关的最显著参数是社交和/或工作活动（R² = 0.457），成功使用助听器的显著预测因素是社交和/或工作活动以及信号处理方式（判别力 = 56.3%）。
验配6个月后，68.1%同意试用助听器的单侧HI韩国成年人继续定期使用该助听器。验配后6个月助听器使用的预测因素包括社交和/或工作活动以及数字信号处理。
