Hearing aid usage in different listening environments

Abstract

This study investigates the daily listening environments of hearing aid users through their hearing aid data logging capacity. Based on a preliminary investigation of data logging information from 72 hearing aid adult users, including 64 males and 8 females, it was found that the majority of the hearing aid user’s time in their main listening program was spent, on average, in “Speech in Quiet” situation (44.34%), followed in order by “Quiet Only” (29.33%), “Noise only” (15.16%), and “Speech in Noise” (11.06%) situations. This finding provides information regarding the general listening pattern of hearing aid users and thus serves as the basis for clinicians to identify unusual individual patterns for better follow-up services.