Hearing Aid Use in Older Adults With Postlingual Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study

Matthew E Hughes   ¹ , BSc (Hons), PhD ;   Joanna Nkyekyer   ² , MSc, BSc ;   Hamish Innes-Brown   ³ , BCogSci (Hons), PhD ;   Susan L Rossell   ^{1, 4, 5} , BSc (Hons), PhD ;   David Sly   ^{6, 7} , BSc (Hons), PhD ;   Sunil Bhar   ² , BA, MA, PhD ;   Andrew Pipingas   ⁸ , BAppSc, PhD ;   Alison Hennessy   ² , MSc, BSc ;   Denny Meyer   ¹ , MBL, BSc (Hons), PhD

¹ Centre for Mental Health, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

² School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

³ Bionics Institute, Melbourne, Australia

⁴ Department of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

⁵ Monash-Alfred Psychiatry Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

⁶ Department of Health and Medical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

⁷ Department of Otolaryngology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁸ Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia