Journal Reviews

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Ethnic inequalities in hearing aid use

4 May 2023 | | Audiology - Adult | Hearing aids, ethnicity, hearing aid, hearing health, inequalities

Recent events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, have once again highlighted health inequalities experienced by people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Our Editors’ Choice paper shows that there are inequalities in hearing aid use and includes the stark finding that ethnicity is...

Tinnitus and leisure noise

6 October 2017 | | tinnitus, leisure noise exposure, adolescents, young adults, hearing health

Tinnitus attracts large interest among researchers all over the world due to its negative psychological side-effects. Researchers from the National Acoustic Laboratory (NAL) tested life-time noise exposure and its influence on the tinnitus experience in 1435 young Australians from various...

Promotion of trust with adult hearing impairment in hearing healthcare

1 March 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants | Trust, clinician patient relationship, hearing healthcare

The goal of this study was to assess how trust is promoted among adult hearing impaired patients seeking hearing healthcare. Previous interview transcript data collected from 29 adults across hearing health care centres in four countries was re-analysed thematically in...