Abstract
Persons with impaired hearing who are candidates for amplification are not all equally successful with hearing aids in daily living. Having the ability to predict success with amplification in everyday life from measures that can be obtained during an initial evaluation of the patient's candidacy would result in greater patient satisfaction with hearing aids and more efficient use of clinical resources. This study investigated the relationship between various demographic and audiometric measures, and two measures of hearing aid success in 50 hearing aid wearers. Audiometric predictors included measures of audibility and suprathreshold distortion. The unaided and aided signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) loss on the QuickSIN test provided the best predictors of hearing aid success in daily living. However, much of this predictive relationship appeared attributable to the patient's age.
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