Should Tinnitus Patients with Subclinical Hearing Impairment Be Offered Hearing Aids? A Comparison of Tinnitus Mitigation Following 3 Months Hearing Aid Use in Individuals with and without Clinical Hearing Impairment.
amplification
hearing aids
hearing loss
subclinical hearing impairment
tinnitus
Journal
Journal of clinical medicine
ISSN: 2077-0383
Titre abrégé: J Clin Med
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101606588
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
13 Dec 2023
13 Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
14
11
2023
revised:
04
12
2023
accepted:
08
12
2023
medline:
23
12
2023
pubmed:
23
12
2023
entrez:
23
12
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
There is a consensus among tinnitus experts to not recommend hearing aids for tinnitus patients with subclinical hearing impairment. However, this notion is arbitrary, as no previous study has compared the treatment effect of hearing aids on tinnitus distress in patients with and without clinical hearing impairment. In this article, we investigate whether tinnitus patients with clinical and subclinical hearing impairment differ in terms of tinnitus mitigation after hearing aid fitting. Twenty-seven tinnitus patients with either clinical (
Identifiants
pubmed: 38137729
pii: jcm12247660
doi: 10.3390/jcm12247660
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Subventions
Organisme : AFA Insurance (Sweden)
ID : 210261
Organisme : Stiftelsen Tysta Skolan
ID : FB23-0009
Organisme : Sound Environment Centre, Lund University
ID : V 2022/2646