Abstract
Fifty new hearing aid users were summoned to individual follow-up about one year after they had completed their hearing aid fitting. About 30% of the hearing impaired seldom used their hearing aid (<1 h/day). The hearing aid was mainly used in conversation between two, conversation in groups, listening to TV/radio, etc. The hearing impaired who had a steep hearing loss used the aid to a lesser extent. There is a strong need of follow-up visits. Reliability of the subject's own judgement was good.