Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Criteria | Description |
|---|---|
Inclusion | • Age 16 years old and above |
• Diagnosed with some degree of hearing loss and are required to wear a hearing aid | |
• Plans to stay in the geographic area for study duration | |
• Community-dwelling | |
• Fluent Chinese speaker | |
Exclusion | • Inability to read or write |
• Cognitive, mental, language, or movement disability diagnosis | |
• Self-reported use of a hearing aid in the past 1 year | |
• Unwilling to wear hearing aids on daily basis | |
• Medical contraindication to use of hearing aids (e.g., draining ear) | |
• Conductive hearing loss with air-bone gap > 15 dB in two or more contiguous frequencies in both ears that cannot be resolved |