Hearing aids are medical devices used to overcome the deficits associated with hearing
loss, the commonest sensory disability, which is neither curable nor reversible. The World …

Purpose: We review the evidence regarding barriers to hearing health care for children who
are deaf or hard of hearing. Background: There are considerable data to suggest that …

Background The disability weight (DW) quantifies the severity of health states from disease
sequela and is a pivotal parameter for disease burden calculation. We conducted a national …

The aim of this study was to compare elderly individuals who are hearing impaired but
inexperienced in using hearing aids (hearing aid non-users; HA-NU) with their aided …

Objective This study aimed to explore barriers to hearing aid adoption amongst older adults
in mainland China. Design Semi-structured interviews were audio-recorded and analysed …

This qualitative study examines narratives of identity among deaf adults in Denmark who
were raised within the Bilingual–Bicultural programme of education. At a time of threat to …

Objective The aim of the current study was to examine the social representation (SR) of
hearing aids in people with hearing loss (PHL) in India, the Republic of Korea (ROK), the …

Disability weights are crucial for quantifying health loss associated with non-fatal outcomes
and were not well assessed in different countries, especially for specific cancer. Therefore …

(1) Objective: Social representations theory (SRT) is a body of theory within social
psychology concerned with how individuals, groups, and communities collectively make …

Objective Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research improves relevance to end users
and improves processes including recruitment participants. PPI in our research has gone …