How sociodemographic and hearing related factors were associated with use of hearing aid in a population-based study: The HUNT Study
| Autor: | Steinar Krokstad, Kristian Tambs, Anne-Sofie Helvik |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Hearing aid
medicine.medical_specialty Hearing disability Hearing loss medicine.medical_treatment Audiology Logistic regression Odds Hearing impairment 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine otorhinolaryngologic diseases Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine 030223 otorhinolaryngology Socioeconomic status medicine.diagnostic_test Hearing handicap business.industry Gender lcsh:Otorhinolaryngology lcsh:RF1-547 Otorhinolaryngology Spouse Audiometry medicine.symptom business Research Article |
| Zdroj: | BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2016) BMC Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders |
| ISSN: | 1472-6815 |
| Popis: | Background The purpose was to study hearing aid (HA) use in persons 65 years and older, and to investigate how socioeconomic and hearing related factors were associated to use of HA. Method This study included 11,602 persons (65 years and above) from the second Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT2) and the integrated North-Trøndelag hearing loss study (NTHLS) in 1995–1997. Audiometry was taken of all participants. Missing information about use of HA in possible users of HA existed in data from 1103 (9.5 %) of the participants. Effects of sociodemographic variables, low, medium and high frequency hearing thresholds and being bothered by their hearing were explored in men and women, adjusting the effects for each other. Cross tabulations and logistic regression analyses were used. Results In all, 14 % (1472 of 10,499) were users of HA, but 62 % had a mean hearing impairment (HI) based on 0.5, 1, 2, 4 kHz over both ears >25 dB. Use of HA was associated with higher education. Adjusting for all covariates and hearing variables, each 10 dB medium frequency threshold shift increased the chance of HA-use by a factor of two-three in both men and women. Having reported being bothered by hearing loss additionally increased the chance around sevenfold. Low frequency hearing thresholds were not associated with HA-use in women. In men, low frequency hearing thresholds up to 50 dB increased odds for use of HA, but low frequency hearing thresholds ≥ 70 dB decreased odds for use of HA. Men living with a spouse had higher odds for using HA compared to men without a spouse. For women there is no difference between those with and without spouse in use of HA. Men and women without spouse did not differ in their use of HA. Conclusions About two third of 65 years and older participants had a HI higher than 25 dB, but only one seventh used HA. Use of HA was associated with higher than basic education. Men without a spouse were less likely to use HA compared to men with a spouse. |
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