Satisfaction and speech perception were frequent secondary outcomes .
There was diversity in measures used to report patient outcomes .
Outcome categories other than patient health status and behavior were rarely reported .
This review has highlighted considerable diversity in patient-reported outcome measurements in r and omized control trials in the context of adult auditory rehabilitation .
OBJECTIVES This review documented the range and nature of reported outcome measures in the context of adult auditory rehabilitative research .
A randomized, controlled trial of the efficacy of a communication course for first time hearing aid users.
Many centres include a communication course as part of their auditory rehabilitation . These usually take the form of a small group and include discussion of the effects of hearing loss , use of the hearing aid , hearing tactics and lip reading . To investigate the efficacy of such a rehabilitation programme a r and omized , controlled trial of a communication course was undertaken . All subjects were first time hearing aid users ;  h and icap was measured using the Quantified Denver Scale of Communication Function ( QDS ) at the time of hearing aid fitting , and then 13 weeks later . All subjects had a hearing aid follow-up appointment , but the treatment group ( n = 22 ) also underwent a four-week communication course , while the control group ( n = 25 ) had no further rehabilitation . The reduction in h and icap measured by the change in QDS was significantly greater for the treatment group than for the control group ( Mann Whitney U test , tied p value = 0.014 ) . This indicates that such a communication course is efficacious in reducing h and icap . Further research is required to identify the population s that will benefit most from such a course
Satisfaction and speech perception were frequent secondary outcomes .
There was diversity in measures used to report patient outcomes .
Outcome categories other than patient health status and behavior were rarely reported .
This review has highlighted considerable diversity in patient-reported outcome measurements in r and omized control trials in the context of adult auditory rehabilitation .
OBJECTIVES This review documented the range and nature of reported outcome measures in the context of adult auditory rehabilitative research .