Hearing-aid non-use often results from benefits being undetectable or unimportant

Evidence

The inability to provide appreciable speech-in-noise benefits can lead to the non-use of hearing aids (e.g., McCormack and Fortnum 2013 ). Non-use can come from unmet expectations (i.e., benefits without satisfaction; Demorest 1984 ), which may be at least partly a result of whatever changes the hearing aids provided being either undetectable to the user or not important enough to the user. The current study looked at both of these: how large a change in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) has to be for it to psychophysically discriminable or clinically meaningful. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5671

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5671
• XREF: connects to: Hearing aids cannot deliver speech-in-noise gains that users can perceive or value