/Objectives: Music is an important component of quality of life and is increasingly recognized as a meaningful patient-centered outcome in hearing healthcare. Although individuals with hearing loss frequently report reduced enjoyment of music, research in this area has focused on auditory perception, including pitch, timbre, melody, and sound quality....
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Discussion
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Audiologists should consider music enjoyment as a patient-centred outcome during hearing aid fitting and rehabilitation counselling, though specific protocol changes await targeted intervention evidence.
Incorporating music enjoyment into hearing healthcare frameworks broadens the definition of treatment success beyond speech intelligibility and may improve patient quality of life and satisfaction.
- 01Review frames music enjoyment as a patient-centred outcome in hearing healthcare, beyond audiometric measures.
- 02Factors beyond auditory perception—such as emotion, cognition, and social context—are highlighted as relevant.
- 03Hearing loss affects music enjoyment in complex ways not captured by standard speech-based outcome measures.
- 04Authors advocate integrating music-related quality of life into clinical assessment frameworks.
- 05No single intervention is recommended; the article is exploratory and conceptual.
Music enjoyment in people with hearing loss is influenced by factors beyond auditory perception, including emotional and social dimensions.
opinionpartially supportedMusic enjoyment should be considered a patient-centred outcome in hearing healthcare.
opinionpartially supported- PMID
- 42793370
- DOI
- 10.3390/brainsci16090945.
- Journal
- Brain Sciences
- Publication type
- review
- Evidence level
- 5
- Population
- People with hearing loss (general review population)
- Intervention
- Music enjoyment as a patient-centred hearing healthcare outcome
Primary outcomes
Factors influencing music enjoyment in hearing loss; Quality of life in people with hearing loss related to music