Objective and Subjective Benefit of Direct-to-Consumer Hearing Devices in Middle-Aged Adults.
Karen S HelferSara K MamoMichael ClaussLincoln DunnPublished in: American journal of audiology (2022)
Our findings support the concept that direct-to-consumer hearing devices have the potential to improve objective and/or subjective speech recognition in middle-aged adults, at least when fit to prescriptive targets. Benefit from these devices was not related to degree of hearing loss in this sample of participants.