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What factors are important to whom in what context, when adults are prescribed hearing aids for hearing loss? A realist review protocol (2022)
Journal Article

INTRODUCTION: Hearing aids are the gold standard treatment to help manage hearing loss. However, not everyone who needs them has them, and of those who do, a significant proportion of people do not use them at all, or use them infrequently. Despite l... Read More about What factors are important to whom in what context, when adults are prescribed hearing aids for hearing loss? A realist review protocol.

What factors are important to whom in what context, when adults are prescribed hearing aids for hearing loss? A realist review protocol (2022)
Journal Article

Introduction Hearing aids are the gold standard treatment to help manage hearing loss. However, not everyone who needs them has them, and of those who do, a significant proportion of people do not use them at all, or use them infrequently. Despite li... Read More about What factors are important to whom in what context, when adults are prescribed hearing aids for hearing loss? A realist review protocol.

Cogmed training does not generalise to real-world benefits for adult hearing aid users: results of a blinded, active-controlled randomised trial (2022)
Journal Article

Objectives: Performance on working memory tasks is positively associated with speech-in-noise perception performance, particularly where auditory inputs are degraded. It is suggested that interventions designed to improve working memory capacity may... Read More about Cogmed training does not generalise to real-world benefits for adult hearing aid users: results of a blinded, active-controlled randomised trial.

Does audio-visual information result in improved health-related decision-making compared with audio-only or visual-only information? Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article

INTRODUCTION: Making health-related decisions can be difficult due to the amount and complexity of information available. Audio-visual information may improve memory for health information but whether audio-visual information can enhance health-relat... Read More about Does audio-visual information result in improved health-related decision-making compared with audio-only or visual-only information? Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Evaluation of home-delivered live-voice auditory training for adult hearing aid users involving their communication partners: a randomised controlled trial (2022)
Journal Article

Objective: To examine the benefits of home-delivered auditory training for adult hearing aid users using live-voice conversations in the presence of a single-talker distractor (experimental group) or in quiet (active-control group). Design: Randomise... Read More about Evaluation of home-delivered live-voice auditory training for adult hearing aid users involving their communication partners: a randomised controlled trial.

Associations Between Subjective Tinnitus and Cognitive Performance: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (2020)
Journal Article

Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of a corresponding external sound source, and bothersome tinnitus has been linked to poorer cognitive performance. This review comprehensively quantifies the association between tinnitus and differen... Read More about Associations Between Subjective Tinnitus and Cognitive Performance: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses.

Applications of qualitative grounded theory methodology to investigate hearing loss: protocol for a qualitative systematic review (2020)
Journal Article

Introduction Hearing loss is a chronic condition affecting 12 million individuals in the UK. People with hearing loss regularly experience difficulties interacting in everyday conversations. These difficulties in communication can result in a person... Read More about Applications of qualitative grounded theory methodology to investigate hearing loss: protocol for a qualitative systematic review.

Identifying and prioritising unanswered research questions for people with hyperacusis: James Lind Alliance Hyperacusis Priority Setting Partnership (2019)
Journal Article

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. OBJECTIVE: To determine research priorities in hyperacusis that key stakeholders agree are the most important. DESIGN/SETTING: A priority setting partnership usi... Read More about Identifying and prioritising unanswered research questions for people with hyperacusis: James Lind Alliance Hyperacusis Priority Setting Partnership.

Association between subjective tinnitus and cognitive performance: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis (2018)
Journal Article

Introduction Subjective tinnitus is very common and has a number of comorbid associations including depression, sleep disturbance and concentration difficulties. Concentration difficulties may be observable in people with tinnitus through poorer... Read More about Association between subjective tinnitus and cognitive performance: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Auditory and cognitive training for cognition in adults with hearing loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2018)
Journal Article

This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the efficacy of auditory training and cognitive training to improve cognitive function in adults with hearing loss. A literature search of academic databases (e.g., MEDLINE, Scopus) and grey literatur... Read More about Auditory and cognitive training for cognition in adults with hearing loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Understanding the psychosocial experiences of adults with mild-moderate hearing loss: an application of Leventhal’s self-regulatory model (2016)
Journal Article

Objective: This study explored the psychosocial experiences of adults with hearing loss using the self-regulatory model as a theoretical framework. The primary components of the model, namely cognitive representations, emotional representations, and... Read More about Understanding the psychosocial experiences of adults with mild-moderate hearing loss: an application of Leventhal’s self-regulatory model.

The relationship of speech intelligibility with hearing sensitivity, cognition, and perceived hearing difficulties varies for different speech perception tests (2015)
Journal Article

Listeners vary in their ability to understand speech in noisy environments. Hearing sensitivity, as measured by pure-tone audiometry, can only partly explain these results, and cognition has emerged as another key concept. Although cognition relates... Read More about The relationship of speech intelligibility with hearing sensitivity, cognition, and perceived hearing difficulties varies for different speech perception tests.

Auditory training can improve working memory, attention, and communication in adverse conditions for adults with hearing loss (2015)
Journal Article

Auditory training (AT) helps compensate for degradation in the auditory signal. A series of three high-quality training studies are discussed, which include, (i) a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of phoneme discrimination in quiet that trained adul... Read More about Auditory training can improve working memory, attention, and communication in adverse conditions for adults with hearing loss.

Assessing the benefits of auditory training to real-world listening: identifying appropriate and sensitive outcomes (2014)
Book Chapter

Auditory training is an intervention that aims to improve auditory performance and help alleviate the difficulties associated with hearing loss. To be an effective intervention, any task-specific learning needs to transfer to functional benefits in r... Read More about Assessing the benefits of auditory training to real-world listening: identifying appropriate and sensitive outcomes.

Benefits of phoneme discrimination training in a randomized controlled trial of 50- to 74-year-olds with mild hearing loss (2014)
Journal Article

Objectives: The aims of this study were to (i) evaluate the efficacy of phoneme discrimination training for hearing and cognitive abilities of adults aged 50 to 74 years with mild sensorineural hearing loss who were not users of hearing aids, and to... Read More about Benefits of phoneme discrimination training in a randomized controlled trial of 50- to 74-year-olds with mild hearing loss.

Working memory training for adult hearing aid users: study protocol for a double-blind randomized active controlled trial (2013)
Journal Article

Background: One in ten people aged between 55 to 74 years have a significant hearing impairment in their better hearing ear (as defined by audiometric hearing thresholds). However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the challenges faced by older... Read More about Working memory training for adult hearing aid users: study protocol for a double-blind randomized active controlled trial.

Computer skills and internet use in adults aged 50-74 years: influence of hearing difficulties (2012)
Journal Article
Henshaw, H., Clark, D. P., Kang, S., & Ferguson, M. A. (2012). Computer skills and internet use in adults aged 50-74 years: influence of hearing difficulties. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(4), Article e113. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.2036

BACKGROUND The use of personal computers (PCs) and the Internet to provide health care information and interventions has increased substantially over the past decade. Yet the effectiveness of such an approach is highly dependent upon whether the t... Read More about Computer skills and internet use in adults aged 50-74 years: influence of hearing difficulties.