Hearing loss is highly prevalent among older adults in China, yet hearing aid uptake remains substantially low. Understanding preferences for updated hearing aid attributes is essential for improving accessibility and promoting adoption, particularly amid rapid technological advancement such as over-the-counter (OTC) devices....
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Understanding which hearing aid attributes (e.g., cost, appearance, battery life, sound quality) most influence uptake in older Chinese adults could guide counselling and prescription strategies, but findings from a Chinese population may not generalise directly to other settings without further study.
With hearing aid uptake critically low in China despite widespread hearing loss among older adults, identifying the patient preference drivers is an essential step toward designing interventions and products that actually get worn.
- 01Used a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to quantify hearing aid preferences among older adults with hearing loss in China.
- 02Addresses a significant public health gap: hearing aid uptake in China is very low despite high prevalence of age-related hearing loss.
- 03DCE methodology reveals the relative importance patients place on specific hearing aid attributes such as cost, style, and performance.
- 04Published in Patient Preference and Adherence, a peer-reviewed journal focused on patient-centred outcomes.
- 05Findings could inform targeted counselling, subsidy policy, and product design decisions in the Chinese market.
Hearing aid uptake among older adults in China is low despite high prevalence of hearing loss.
studysupportedA discrete choice experiment can identify which hearing aid attributes drive preference and adoption decisions in older Chinese adults.
studysupported- PMID
- 42634792
- DOI
- 10.2147/PPA.S613152.
- Journal
- Patient Preference and Adherence
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 2b
- Population
- Older adults with hearing loss in China
- Intervention
- Discrete choice experiment eliciting hearing aid use preferences
Primary outcomes
Relative importance of hearing aid attributes in driving use preference; Willingness to adopt hearing aids based on specific feature combinations