Authors
Gudambe Nellithaya Spoorthi, Usha Shastri, Kaushlendra Kumar, Mohan Kumar Kalaiah, Kavassery Venkateswaran Nisha, Nitya Sridhar
Published in
International journal of audiology. Pages 1-15. Sep 28, 2026. Epub Sep 28, 2026.
Abstract
This systematic review and meta-analysis compared the effects of specific components of aural rehabilitation delivered in-person and guided internet-based modalities on the quality of life (QoL) of adults with acquired hearing loss.
Articles published up to August 2025 in scientific databases- PubMed, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched. A search strategy was built using terms associated with aural rehabilitation, offline, online, internet, tele-audiology, hearing loss, and adults and was tailored to the subject headings and syntax of each database.
Among the 6,646 studies retrieved, 49 met the inclusion criteria.
This systematic review included 49 studies, 12 of which were included in the meta-analyses. In-person aural rehabilitation showed a medium effect size, while internet-based aural rehabilitation showed a small but statistically significant improvement in hearing-related QoL measures. In terms of health-related QoL, only internet-based but not in-person aural rehabilitation had a small statistically significant improvement.
These findings indicate that adults with hearing loss benefit from both in-person and internet-based aural rehabilitation regarding hearing-related QoL outcomes. More investigations are needed to understand the effectiveness of particular components of aural rehabilitation in improving the health-related QoL of adults with hearing loss.
PMID:
42804507
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 29 Sep 2026.
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