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For people with mild to moderate hearing loss, self-fitted, over-the-counter hearing aids may offer comparable long-term benefits to hearing aids fitted by professional audiologists, according to a small study by international scientists. They followed up 44 people who received hearing aids, 23 of whom had fitted their own, and found no meaningful difference in tests of hearing aid benefits between the groups eight months after their hearing aids were fitted.
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Long-Term Outcomes of Self-Fit vs Audiologist-Fit Hearing Aids
About The Study: This comparative effectiveness research study demonstrated that self-fit over-the-counter hearing aids can offer comparable long-term benefits to audiologist-fit hearing aids for individuals with mild to moderate hearing loss.
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