Newman C W, Weinstein B E
Division of Audiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.
Ear Hear. 1988 Apr;9(2):81-5. doi: 10.1097/00003446-198804000-00006.
Hearing impairment in older adults is associated with psychological and social difficulties. The goal of hearing aid fitting is to reduce the perceived handicap resulting from the hearing loss. Measures of self-perceived handicap are being increasingly incorporated into the clinicians armamentarium as an objective measure of the outcome of intervention. Eighteen elderly hearing-impaired males and their spouses responded to the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (HHIE) prior to and following 1 year of hearing aid provision. Our findings revealed a significant reduction in the perceived emotional and social effects of hearing impairment following 1 year of hearing aid use. The reduction in perceived handicap, as measured using the HHIE, was greater for the hearing aid users than for their spouses. The findings attest to the construct validity of the HHIE as a measure of hearing aid benefit.
老年人听力障碍与心理和社交困难有关。助听器验配的目标是减少听力损失导致的感知障碍。自我感知障碍的测量方法越来越多地被纳入临床医生的工具库，作为干预结果的客观指标。18名老年听力受损男性及其配偶在佩戴助听器1年之前和之后对老年人听力障碍量表（HHIE）进行了回应。我们的研究结果显示，使用助听器1年后，听力障碍在情感和社交方面的感知影响显著降低。使用HHIE测量，助听器使用者的感知障碍减少幅度大于其配偶。这些发现证明了HHIE作为衡量助听器益处的结构效度。
