Maria Hoff
Programme Supervisor
Department of Health andAbout Maria Hoff
Maria is a registered audiologist working as a university lecturer and programme director at the BSc Audiology Programme at the University of Gothenburg. Maria's primary teaching as well as research areas invlude age-related hearing loss, tinnitus and hyperacusis. She has previously worked clinically for several years, both in Sweden and in the Unitd Kingdom, with audiological assessment and rehabilitation of person with hearing loss, tinnitus and hyperacusis.
Maria obtained a PhD in Medical Science in 2021 with the thesis: "Hearing in early old age: current perspectives".
Teaching activities
Gerontology, audiological rehabilitation, tinnitus and hyperacusis. Also supervises final projects of BSc and MSc students, and teaches about hearing diagnostics to medical students.
Research activities
Maria is part of the research group H70-Hearing (project leader: André Sadeghi), where she is conducting epidemiological research on hearing function and hearing loss in old age, also its association with cognition. The data was collected wthin a large population-based study (H70) in Göthenburg. She is also inviolved in a research project within Arbets- och miljömedicin (AMM) where the risk for hearing related sick leave among preschool personnel is studied (project leader: Sofie Fredriksson). Moreover, Maria conducts clinical research on methods for measuring treatment effects in tinnitus care, in colaboration with Hörselverksamheten, Habilitering och Hälsa.
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Hearing loss and cognitive function in early old age: comparing subjective and objective hearing
measures.
Maria Hoff, Johan Skoog, Timothy Hadarsson-Bodin, Tomas Tengstrand, Ulf Rosenhall, Ingmar Skoog, André M. Sadeghi
Gerontology - 2022 -
Hearing in early old age: current
perspectives
Maria Hoff
2021 -
Auditory function and prevalence of specific ear and hearing related pathologies in the general population at age
70.
Maria Hoff, Tomas Tengstrand, André M. Sadeghi, Ingmar Skoog, Ulf Rosenhall
International journal of audiology - 2020 -
Prevalence and Severity of Tinnitus in a Representative Sample of 70 Year
Olds.
Maria Hoff, Tomas Tengstrand, André M. Sadeghi, Ingmar Skoog
14th Congress of the European Federation of Audiology Society, 22-25 May 2019, Lisbon, Portugal - 2019 -
Prevalence and Characteristics of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions in a Representative Sample of 70 Year
Olds.
Maria Hoff, Tomas Tengstrand, Ulf Rosenhall, Ingmar Skoog, André M. Sadeghi
14th Congress of the European Federation of Audiology Society, 22-25 May 2019, Lisbon, Portugal - 2019 -
The Gothenburg H70 Birth cohort study 2014-16: design, methods and study
population.
Therese Rydberg Sterner, Felicia Ahlner, Kaj Blennow, Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff, Hanna Falk, Lena Havstam Johansson, Maria Hoff, Mathias Holm, Helena M Hörder, Tina Jacobsson, Boo Johansson, Lena Johansson, Jürgen Kern, Silke Kern, Alejandra Machado, Madeleine Mellqvist Fässberg, Johan Nilsson, Mats Ribbe, Elisabeth Rothenberg, Lina Rydén, André M. Sadeghi, Simona Sacuiu, Jessica Samuelsson, Robert Sigström, Johan Skoog, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Margda Waern, Eric Westman, Hanna Wetterberg, Henrik Zetterberg, Madeleine Zetterberg, Anna Zettergren, Svante Östling, Ingmar Skoog
European journal of epidemiology - 2019 -
Improved hearing in Swedish 70-year olds—a cohort comparison over more than four decades
(1971–2014)
Maria Hoff, Tomas Tengstrand, André M. Sadeghi, Ingmar Skoog, Ulf Rosenhall
Age and Ageing - 2018 -
Improved Hearing in Swedish 70 Year Olds: Evidence from Cohort Comparisons of Unscreened
Populations.
Maria Hoff, Tomas Tengstrand, André M. Sadeghi, Ulf Rosenhall
13th congress of the European Federation of Audiology Societies (EFAS), 7-10 June, Interlaken/Switzerland - 2017 -
A Swedish cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Tinnitus Functional
Index
Maria Hoff, Kim R. Kähäri
International Journal of Audiology - 2017