Unilateral Hearing Loss in Youth: Development of Candidate Items for a Condition-Specific Validated Instrument.

Objective: This study interviewed youth with unilateral hearing, utilizing their responses to generate candidate items for a condition-specific patient-reported instrument.

Study Design: Mixed methods, cross-sectional.

Setting: Tertiary care children's hospital.

Hearing devices for children with unilateral hearing loss: Patient- and parent-reported perspectives.

Objective: Management of children with unilateral hearing loss is not standardized. The primary goal of this study was to elicit patient- and parent-reported perspectives regarding usage of hearing devices in pediatric UHL and to suggest a basic algorithmic approach to management.

Methods: Our tertiary care center recruited families of youth ages 5-19 years with unilateral hearing loss from January 2014 through October 2015.