What factors affect the effectiveness of hearing aids

Hearing aids are available for hearing impaired patients, and the listening effect will vary depending on each person's actual situation. The human body is an organism with complex structural functions, so hearing loss people's hearing organs are not 100% satisfied after wearing hearing aids. So what are the factors that affect the effect of hearing aids?

For the listening effect of hearing aids, the influencing factors are as follows:

• Self-factors
• Hearing aid product functional factors
• The technical expertise of the audiologist

First, the own factors of hearing impaired patients

1. Degree of hearing loss: mild hearing loss and severe hearing loss above the effect of fitting hearing aids are not the best. Patients with moderate hearing loss are the ones who have the best effect of fitting hearing aids. Whether hearing impaired patients have a positive or negative attitude towards the objective hearing loss is one of the important factors affecting the selection effect of hearing aids.

2. The length of hearing loss time: This is a factor that affects the speech resolution of hearing impaired patients, and the short hearing loss time is better than the long hearing loss time.

3. The nature of hearing loss: sensorineural deafness is the factor that affects the speech discrimination ability of hearing impaired patients, and it is also the nature of the worst effect of hearing aids for hearing impaired patients. Generally, patients with conductive hearing loss have a better fitting effect than patients with mixed hearing loss; The fitting effect of mixed hearing loss is better than that of patients with sensorineural hearing loss.

4. Unrealistic expectations: Some hearing-impaired patients have too high expectations for the wearing effect of hearing aids, hoping to achieve normal hearing, which is unrealistic.

Second, the functional factors of hearing aid products

The signal processing channel, computing speed, noise reduction level, feedback suppression function, power intensity automatic control, Bluetooth function, etc. of hearing aid products are all important factors affecting the listening effect of hearing aids. Hearing aid products of different grades and manufacturers will have certain differences in listening effect.

Finally, the technical expertise of the audiologist

Professional and experienced fitters can achieve better hearing aids according to the hearing conditions and use needs of hearing-impaired patients. New fitters or untrained fitters may not be able to perform the functions of hearing aids.

The above are 3 factors that affect the effect of hearing aids, I hope it will help you.

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