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‘The worse my hearing got, the less sociable I got’: a qualitative study of patient and professional views of the management of social isolation and hearing loss  

The objective was to examine the perspectives of key stakeholders regarding (i) the relationship between hearing loss and social isolation and (ii) interventions to address hearing loss and social isolation. The study demonstrated that social isolation arising from hearing loss is a substantial, complex problem and provided novel insights on implementing an intervention to address this issue.