Health Literacy and Self-Reported Hearing Aid Use in the Health and Retirement Study.

Ear and Hearing
Niall Andre Munson KlynSumitrajit Dhar

Abstract

Understanding the determinants of hearing aid use is important to improve the provision of hearing healthcare. Prior research has indicated that materials in the clinic and online, as well as audiologists' language during appointments, require a higher literacy level than most patients possess. We hypothesized that low health literacy is a barrier to entry in hearing healthcare, and therefore that health literacy would be positively correlated with the probability of hearing aid use. We performed retrospective analyses of the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal survey of American adults of retirement age. Objective health literacy was measured in different but overlapping subsamples using subsets of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults and the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (n = 1240, n = 1586, and n = 2412). Subjective health literacy was assessed using a single-question screener in a larger sample (n = 8362). Separate discrete time models including common covariates of hearing aid use were constructed for each subsample. Objective health literacy measures did not correlate significantly with hearing aid use when age, gender, race/ethnicity, self-assessed hearing ability, and net income were i...Continue Reading

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