ArticleSAGE open medicine2020
Experiences of hearing aid use among patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease dementia: A qualitative study.
Article in SAGE open medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pure Tone Audiometry and Hearing Loss in Alzheimer's Disease: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Trial
- Association between hearing aid use and cognitive function among Chinese middle-aged and older adults with hearing impairment: the mediating effect of social activity.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- Hearing aid effectiveness and probable dementia risk across 33 countries: A pooled analysis of seven cohorts.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Article
- Hearing Aids Use Preferences Among Older Adults with Hearing Loss: A Discrete Choice Experiment.Patient preference and adherence · 2026Article
- Hearing Aid Adoption Rates: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Influencing Factors of Prospective Hearing Aid Users.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2025Article
- DX243 counteracts both acoustic trauma-induced reduction in cortical brain oscillations and cochlear synaptopathy.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Article
- Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids, and Cognition.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Enablers and Barriers to Hearing aid Use in People Living With Dementia.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2024Article
- Interactive effects of hearing aid use and cognitive function in patients with hearing loss.Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society · 2024Article
- Hearing screening and amplifier uptake results in a multidisciplinary head and neck cancer survivorship clinic.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2023Article
- Dementia and hearing-aid use: a two-way street.Age and ageing · 2022Article
- Cognitive assessment in hearing aid clinics: Is it feasible to implement in a National Health Service (NHS) setting?Science progressArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesHearing aid usage supports communication and independence; however, many do not use their hearing aids. This study explored the experiences of hearing aid use in adults with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease.
methodsParticipants completed semi-structured interviews which were analysed using thematic analysis. Ten people (six males, age range 75-86 years old) with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease who had been fitted with hearing aids were recruited to the study.
resultsWe identified four major themes: (1) memory and other cognitive barriers to using hearing aids, (2) practical aspects of hearing aids, (3) benefits of hearing aids, and (4) ambivalence towards hearing aids.
conclusionsParticipants perceived a significant impact of cognitive impairment on the experience of using hearing aids. This population may benefit from targeted strategies to support use of hearing aids. The findings from this study can inform future research to optimise use of hearing aids in this population.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.