| Titre : | International Journal of Audiology IJA, Vol. 57, n°1-12 - January-December 2018 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin : Périodique |
| Paru le : | 01/01/2018 |
| Année de publication : | 2018 |
| Langues: | Français |
| Disponible en ligne : | Non |
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The aim of this study was to validate the performance of a self-assessment hearing loss screening tool for adults against audiometric evaluation. Different audiological measurements were compared with the results of a 10-item Likert-type questio[...]
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The main purpose of this research was to obtain normative data for auditory processing tests for Norwegian speaking children. Design: Participants were administered routine audiological tests and an auditory processing test-battery consisting of[...]
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This study examined the subjective psychological and social effects of highly asymmetric hearing loss (single-sided deafness [SSD]) in adults. Design: Three group interviews were conducted using the critical incident technique and analysed using[...]
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This study describes older adults’ experiences with a new hearing aid (HA) during the first 6 months after fitting. Design: In a longitudinally designed study, experiences and issues with HA use were assessed at a six-month follow-up appointment[...]
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The current research investigated whether professional musicians outperformed non-musicians on auditory processing and speech-in-noise perception as assessed using behavioural and electrophysiological tasks. Design: Spectro-temporal processing s[...]
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To describe, in terms of functional gain and word recognition, the audiological results of patients under 18 years of age implanted with the active bone conduction implant, Bonebridge™. Design: Retrospective case studies conducted by reviewing t[...]
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Processing delay is one of the important factors that limit the development of novel algorithms for hearing devices. In this study, both normal-hearing listeners and listeners with hearing loss were tested for their tolerance of processing delay[...]
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Ilmari Pyykko ;
Vinaya Manchaiah ;
Jing Zou ;
et al.
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The current study aimed to better understand how patients and their significant others (SOs) cope with Menière’s disease (MD). Design: The study used a cross-sectional design and the data were collected using questionnaires. Study sample: Seven[...]
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The feasibility and repeatability of neonate auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) with a controlled hand-held applied force gauge for bone-conducted stimulus delivery was examined. Design: A repeated measures test–retest design was employed. Stud[...]
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Lina Xue ;
Gaëlle Le Bot ;
Wim Van Petegem ;
et al.
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The aim of this study is to derive a consensus on an interdisciplinary competency framework regarding a holistic approach for audiological rehabilitation (AR), which includes disciplines from medicine, engineering, social sciences and humanities[...]
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To establish the reliability, validity and responsiveness of the Chinese version of the Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI-CH) in measuring tinnitus severity in Hong Kong Chinese population. Design: This is a cross-sectional psychometric validation [...]
Article
Eldré W. Beukes, Auteur ;
Vinaya Manchaiah ;
David M. Baguley ;
et al.
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The research objective was to identify processes that could either facilitate or hinder clinical implementation of an Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for tinnitus in the UK. This was done by exploring the research conte[...]
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To assess the effects of tinnitus treatments on sleep disorders in patients with tinnitus. Design: Subjects completed the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS), and State Tra[...]
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The need to develop a measure of managing children with a single profile of auditory processing disorders (APDs), and differentiate between true and artefactual improvements necessitated the study. The study also sought to determine the efficacy[...]
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Adolescent farmworkers are exposed to loud noise during farm activities. We present a prospective study that evaluated the efficacy of low-cost, technology-based intervention approaches in high schools to enhance the use of hearing protection am[...]
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Yi-Lu Li ;
Yi-Hui Lin ;
Yeou-Jiunn Chen ;
et al.
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This study explored tone production, tone perception and intelligibility of produced speech in Mandarin-speaking prelingually deaf children with at least 5 years of cochlear implant (CI) experience. Another focus was on the predictive value of t[...]
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This study obtained preliminary data using two types of sound therapy to suppress tinnitus and/or reduce its functional effects: (1) Notched noise (1000–12,000 Hz notched within a 1-octave range centred around the tinnitus pitch match [PM][...]
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To study the long-term evolution of speech and intelligence in a child with partial deafness and normal hearing in the low frequencies after sequentially receiving cochlear implants in both ears. Design: Retrospective chart review. Study sample:[...]
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To raise awareness and propose a good practice guide for translating and adapting any hearing-related questionnaire to be used for comparisons across populations divided by language or culture, and to encourage investigators to publish detailed [...]
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Objectives: To review literature on the use of manual and automatically switching multimemory devices by hearing aid and CI recipients, and to investigate if recipients appreciate and adequately use the ability to switch between programmes in va[...]
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Objective: Cochlear implants (CI) and hearing aids (HA) have a gain control that allows the bimodal user to change the loudness. Due to differences in dynamic range between CI and HA, an equal change of the gains of the two devices results in di[...]
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Objective: Teleotoscopy requires the assistance of telehealth facilitators; but their training requirements remain to be determined. We evaluated the use of an otoscopy simulator to train facilitators to remote otoscopies sent via the Internet u[...]
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Objective: To compare preference for and performance of manually selected programmes to an automatic sound classifier, the Phonak AutoSense OS. Design: A single blind repeated measures study. Participants were fit with Phonak Virto V90 ITE aids;[...]
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Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the hypothesis that patients using β-blockers will develop hearing loss. Design: A cross-sectional study. Study sample: A total of 125 patients completed the study. A total of 63 patients w[...]
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Objective: The National Acoustic Laboratories Dynamic Conversations Test (NAL-DCT) is a new test of speech comprehension that incorporates a realistic environment and dynamic speech materials that capture certain features of everyday conversatio[...]
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Objective: ClearVoice is a single-microphone noise reduction algorithm in Advanced Bionics cochlear implant(CI) systems with the aim to improve performance in background noise. The present study investigated a hypothesised increased effect of Cl[...]
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Objective: To search for distinctive clinical features of patients with double tinnitus in a single ear. Design retrospective: Study sample: Six hundred and fourteen tinnitus patients were interviewed using a detailed questionnaire. They underwe[...]
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Objective: To consider the evolving concept of auditory processing disorder (APD). Design: Narrative review and opinion piece. Study sample: Eight approaches to APD described in the literature and its definitions by ten societies or groups from [...]
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Objective: This systematic review evaluated the effectiveness of two frequency-lowering schemes, non-linear frequency compression and frequency transposition, at improving speech intelligibility for adult hearing-impaired populations. Design: A [...]
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Objective: To conduct a systematic review of the benefits of non-linear frequency compression (NLFC) in adults and children. Design: Ten databases were searched for studies comparing the effects of NLFC and conventional processing (CP) for the p[...]
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Objective: Patient-centred communication (PCC) is an essential skill for effective healthcare provision and is accepted as a core competency in medicine and allied health. In audiology, recent studies have shown that audiologists rarely display [...]
Article
Objective: Although it is understood that bone-conduction (BC) hearing is different between infants and adults, few studies have attempted to explain why these differences exist. The main objective in this study was to better understand how prop[...]
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Objective: To examine the epidemiological and audiological profile, pattern of hearing aid (HA) fitting and usage among HA users in Singapore. Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study. Study sample: Cohort of 1068 subjects issued with HAs at [...]
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Objective: Chronic tinnitus has been associated with several psychiatric disorders. Only few studies have investigated these disorders using validated diagnostic interviews. The aims were to diagnose psychiatric and personality disorders with st[...]
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Objective: To evaluate the capacity of a self-management assessment tool to identify unmet hearing health care (HHC) needs; to determine whether such an assessment yields novel and clinically useful information. Design: Hearing loss self-managem[...]
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This manuscript provides a Commentary on a paper published in the current issue of the International Journal of Audiology and the companion paper published in Ear and Hearing by Soli et al. These papers report background, rationale and results o[...]
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Objective: Validate use of the Extended Speech Intelligibility Index (ESII) for prediction of speech intelligibility in non-stationary real-world noise environments. Define a means of using these predictions for objective occupational hearing sc[...]
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Objective: Research findings concerning the relation between benefit from hearing aid (HA) noise suppression and working memory function are inconsistent. The current study thus investigated the effects of three noise suppression algorithms on a[...]
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Objective: The aims were to 1) establish which of the four algorithms for estimating residual noise level and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) perform better in terms of post-average wave-V peak latency and ampl[...]
Article
Rui Gong ;
Xiangyang Hu ;
Chen Gong ;
et al.
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Objective: This study aims to investigate the prevalence of hearing loss, and to analyse the major demographics and risk factors that influence the prevalence in older adults of China. Design: Cross-sectional investigation. Study sample: Probabi[...]
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Objective: To evaluate the validity and efficacy of a transient noise reduction algorithm (TNR) in cochlear implant processing and the interaction of TNR with a continuous noise reduction algorithm (CNR). Design: We studied the effects of TNR an[...]
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Objective: This study assessed the validity of DPOAE screening conducted by village health workers (VHWs) in a rural community. Real-time click evoked tele-auditory brainstem response (tele-ABR) was used as the gold standard to establish validit[...]
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Kelley Graydon ;
Bram Van Dun ;
Dani Tomlin ;
et al.
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Objective: To determine the efficacy of deficit-specific remediation for spatial processing disorder, quantify effects of remediation on functional listening, and determine if remediation is maintained. Design: Participants had SPD, diagnosed us[...]
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess audiologists’ perceptions of ethics and moral climate in the workplace. Design: The Ethics Environmental Questionnaire (EEQ) was sent out to all audiologists registered with the professional bod[...]
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Objective: The effects of rate on auditory-evoked potentials (AEP) to short noise gaps (12 ms) recorded at high sampling rates using wide-band filters were investigated. Design: Auditory brainstem (ABR), middle latency (MLR), late latency [...]
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Vidya Ramkumar ;
K. R. John ;
K. Selvakumar ;
et al.
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Objective: This study evaluated the cost and outcome of a community-based hearing screening programme in which village health workers (VHWs) screened children in their homes using a two-step DPOAE screening protocol. Children referred in a secon[...]
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Objective: The aim was to determine the proportion and characteristics of patients who were offered, enrolled in and completed an audiologist-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) programme for tinnitus and/or hyperacusis in a specialist[...]
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Objectives: Previous studies show that intracochlear electrical stimulation independent of environmental sounds appears to suppress tinnitus, even long-term. In order to assess the viability of this potential treatment option it is essential to [...]
Article
Di Wu ;
Yun Zheng ;
Zhiji Chen ;
et al.
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Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of the Chinese (Mandarin) Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI-C) by comparing patient-reported and clinician-interviewed outcomes and to raise awareness of the difficulties in u[...]
Article
Objective: Noise-induced hearing problems among young adults are increasing due to participation in loud activities. This study explored attitudes towards leisure noise, hearing protection, and perceived susceptibility to noise damage in young a[...]
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of four subjective questions related to listening effort. A secondary purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of hearing aid beamforming microphone array[...]
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Objective: To evaluate and compare the specificity, sensitivity and detection time of various time-domain and multi-band frequency domain methods when detecting the auditory brainstem response (ABR). Design: Simulations and subject recorded data[...]
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This Cochrane corner features the review entitled “Hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss in adults” published in 2017. In their review, Ferguson et al. identified five randomised controlled trials (RCTs) involving 825 participants, with[...]
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Objective: We investigated whether speech intelligibility and listening effort for hearing-aid users is affected by semantic context and hearing-aid setting. Design: Participants heard target sentences spoken in a reverberant background of cafet[...]
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Objective: A previous study [Rawool, V. W. (2016). Auditory processing deficits: Assessment and intervention. New York, NY: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., pp. 186–187] demonstrated objective assessment of binaural summation through right contr[...]
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Tobias Rader ;
Philipp Doms ;
Youssef Adel ;
et al.
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Objective: A psychoacoustic procedure designed for the precise assessment of perceptional threshold (T-level) in cochlear implant (CI) users is presented. The impact of this procedure on speech perception was investigated. Design: Individual T-l[...]
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Objective: To analyse referral cohorts from School Entry Screening, Hearing (SHS) and Vision Screening (SVS) before and after documented changes. To compare referrals to pre-school specialists with subsequent group SHS outcomes. Design: Randomiz[...]
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Marc Jutras ;
Justin Lambert ;
Jiyoung Hwang ;
et al.
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Objective: Explore the acceptability of a socialisation, health education and falls prevention programme (Walk and Talk for Your Life: WTL) as an adjunct to group auditory rehabilitation (GAR) and how it might be adapted for older adults with he[...]
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Objective: To create a hearing test useable without the involvement of a clinician or calibrated equipment, suitable for children aged 5 or older. Design: The tablet-based app (Sound Scouts) includes tests of speech in quiet, speech in noise and[...]
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Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate whether the Big Five personality traits predict the outcome of Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy (ICBT) and whether they moderate the outcome between ICBT and face-to-face group cogni[...]
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Objective: This study aimed to develop and assess a method to measure word recognition abilities using a smartphone application (App) connected to an audiometer.
Design: Word lists were recorded in South African English and Afrikaans. Analyses [...]
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Objective: Internet interventions for hearing aid (HA) users have been shown to be effective in helping persons with hearing problems. As earlier research refers to objective data on these effects, little is known about how participants experien[...]
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Objective: To compare recordings of bone conduction (BC) stimulated auditory brainstem response (ABR) obtained using the newer BC transducer Radioear B81 and the conventional BC transducer Radioear B71. Balanced electromagnetic separation transd[...]
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Objective: The device-oriented subjective outcome (DOSO) is a device-oriented questionnaire, intended to minimise the influence of personality on self-reported measures. The aim of this study was to provide normative data with 2015-era hearing a[...]
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Objective: This study describes the adaptation of the Mr. Potato Head Task into Hebrew and explores the development of word and sentence recognition in toddlers with typical hearing (TH) and toddlers with hearing loss (HL).
Design: Toddlers man[...]
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Objective: To develop content for a series of interactive video tutorials (or reusable learning objects, RLOs) for first-time adult hearing aid users, to enhance knowledge of hearing aids and communication.
Design: RLO content was based on an e[...]
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Objective: Perceived social support and hearing handicap were assessed in adults with and without hearing loss who lived in different geographical regions of Alabama.
Design: The Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults (HHIA) assessed emotional a[...]
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Objective: To assess the prevalence of hyperacusis and severe hyperacusis among children and adolescents seen at an audiology outpatient tinnitus and hyperacusis service.
Design: This was a retrospective study. Hyperacusis was considered as pre[...]
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Objective: The objective was to evaluate and select appropriate parameters for a multi-channel transient reduction (MCTR) algorithm for detecting and attenuating transient sounds in speech.
Design: In each trial, the same sentence was played tw[...]
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Objectives: Cochlear dead regions (DRs) are regions in the cochlea where the inner hair cells and/or neurons are not functioning. Adults with extensive high-frequency DRs have enhanced abilities in processing sounds with frequencies just below t[...]
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Objective: To examine the relationship between extended high-frequency pure tone hearing thresholds (frequencies 10 to 14 kHz) and working memory capacity (WMC), inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility.
Design: Experimental study me[...]
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Objective: To study work participation of persons with hearing loss, and associations with hearing disabilities, self-reported workability, fatigue and work accommodation.
Design: Cross-sectional internet-based survey.
Study sample: A total of[...]
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Objective: The objective of this study is to quantify the effect of the Bone Conduction Implant (BCI) on sound localisation accuracy in subjects with conductive hearing loss (CHL).
Design: The subjects were tested in a horizontal sound localisa[...]
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Objective: The frequency-following response (FFR) is a neurophonic potential used to assess auditory neural encoding at subcortical stages. Despite the FFR’s empirical and clinical utility, basic response properties of this evoked potential rema[...]
Article
Xia Ling ;
Kang-Zhi Li ;
Bo Shen ;
et al.
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Objective: To investigate the diagnosis and treatment of anterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (AC-BPPV).
Design: Retrospective analysis of clinical data regarding the diagnosis and treatment of patients with AC-BPPV.
Study sampl[...]
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Objective: This study was designed to test whether cue utilisation might be employed as a tool to assess the diagnostic skills of audiologists. The utilisation of cues is a characteristic of expertise and critical for successful diagnoses in cli[...]
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Objective: To determine the time needed to remotely perform a set of intraoperative measurements during cochlear implantation surgery and to compare it to the time needed to perform the same measurements in theatre.
Design: Prospective two-arm [...]
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Objective: To examine benefit from immediate repetition of a masked speech message in younger, middle-aged and older adults.
Design: Participants listened to sentences in conditions where only the target message was repeated, and when both the [...]
Article
Objective: To determine the training, self-reported competence and practice patterns of South African audiologists (SAAs) regarding cerumen management (CM).
Design: Prospective cross-sectional survey. An online questionnaire was completed by SA[...]
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Recent technological advances have led to a rapid increase in alternative listening devices to conventional hearing aids. The aim was to systematically review the existing evidence to assess the effectiveness of alternative listening devices in [...]
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Objective: Research has minimally focussed on the music listening habits and preferred sound volumes among adolescents with severe to profound congenital HL. Listening to music played at loud sound volumes and for a long duration of time could i[...]
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Objective: The primary purpose of this study was to update existing data on additional gain before feedback and maximum stable gain in commercially available, open-fit hearing instruments. A secondary purpose was to evaluate ratings of sound qua[...]
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Objective: Deaf children with cochlear implants (CIs) show poorer verbal working memory compared to normal-hearing (NH) peers, but little is known about their verbal learning and memory (VLM) processes involving multi-trial free recall.
Design:[...]
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Objective: This study evaluates the Danish test battery for auditory processing disorder (APD). The battery consists of four behavioural tests, two speech and two non-speech stimuli tests. The evaluation includes determination of: (1) new cut-of[...]
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Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a screening questionnaire for auditory processing disorder (APD).
Design: Fifty-two questions were created to enable parent/teacher proxies to rate students listening skills in terms of auditory p[...]
Article
Eu Chin Ho ;
Warren Ming Wu Ong ;
KeXin Li ;
et al.
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Objective: To examine the factors associated with late presentation at first hearing aid (HA) fitting, HA choice and usage among users in Singapore.
Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.
Study sample: 1068 subjects issued with HAs at a [...]
Article
In order to identify patient preferences in care for tinnitus an in depth grounded theory study was conducted. This consisted of interviews with 41 patients who had sought help for tinnitus across a range of locations and tinnitus services in En[...]
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Objective: This research aimed to evaluate the content of the Social Participation Restrictions Questionnaire (SPaRQ) in terms of its relevance, clarity, comprehensiveness, acceptability to adults with hearing loss, and responsiveness.
Design: [...]
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Objective: Tinnitus is one of the most common somatic symptoms to affect humanity. Prevalence rates in adult populations range from 8.2 to 20.1%. Our aim was to understand the beliefs and interpretations of tinnitus and the experience of living [...]
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Clinicians have long used self-report methods to assess hearing aid benefit. However, there are fewer data as to whether self-report instruments can be used to compare differences between signal processing settings. This study examined how self-[...]
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Objective: Hearing problems are a significant public health concern. It has been suggested that psychological distress may represent both a cause and a consequence of hearing problems. Prospective data that allow testing such potential bi-direct[...]
Article
Objective: The study investigated how the symptoms of superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS) affected patients in their daily life, and how patients coped with the disease.
Design: This was a qualitative study; semi-structured interviews wer[...]
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The objective of this article is to investigate the effects of bilingualism on auditory capacity of young adults using a dichotic consonant–vowel (CV) test. Listeners were asked to identify distinct CVs dichotically presented to each ear through[...]
Article
Hongmei Hu ;
Xin Xi ;
Lena L. N. Wong ;
et al.
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Objective: Development of the Mandarin Chinese matrix (CMNmatrix) sentence test for speech intelligibility measurements in noise according to the international standard procedure.
Design: A 50-word base matrix representing the distribution of p[...]
Article
This study investigated the effect of speech rate for Italian-speaking cochlear implant (CI) users with the aim of gaining insight into everyday listening situations where speaker’s rate may vary considerably together with speech level in fluctu[...]
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To evaluate whether speech recognition in noise differs according to whether a wireless remote microphone is connected to just the cochlear implant (CI) or to both the CI and to the hearing aid (HA) in bimodal CI users. The second aim was to eva[...]
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The condition of the auditory nerve is a factor determining hearing performance of cochlear implant (CI) recipients. Abnormal loudness adaptation is associated with poor auditory nerve survival. We examined which stimulus conditions are suitable[...]
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Self speech recognition tests in quiet and noise at home are compared to the standard tests performed in the clinic. Potential effects of stimuli presentation modes (loudspeaker or audio cable) and assessment (clinician or self-assessment at hom[...]
Article
Meizhu Liu ;
Lingxiang Wu ;
Weijing Wu ;
et al.
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This study aims to examine the complex relationships among verbal ability (VA), executive function (EF), and theory of mind (ToM) in young Chinese children with cochlear implants (CCI). All participants were tested using a set of nine measures: [...]
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The aim was to investigate leisure noise exposure and sociodemographic determinants of risky leisure noise exposure over five years in 2148 students visiting grade 9 of any school type in a German city from 2009–2011. Within the OHRKAN cohort st[...]
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Haidi Yang ;
Yuexin Cai ;
Huanping Guo ;
et al.
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There is a lack of national studies on tinnitus in China and data based on a large sample size from multiple areas of the country. A cross-sectional study was carried out in Guangdong province from October 2015 to February 2016. In the study, ti[...]
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Self-help has the potential to provide low-cost and effective ways of improving access to psychological support for people with tinnitus. When developing and evaluating resources it is important to consider issues that may influence successful i[...]
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The speech intelligibility benefit of visual speech cues during oral communication is well-established. Therefore, an ecologically valid approach of auditory assessment should include the processing of both auditory and visual speech cues. This [...]
Article
Negative hearing effects of a single course of IV aminoglycoside therapy in cystic fibrosis patients
Objective: Identify hearing effects of a single course of intravenous (IV) aminoglycoside antibiotics (AGs) therapy in adult cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Determine whether the change is large enough to enable a proof-of-concept study of a new [...]
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This study aims to understand patterns in the social representation of hearing loss reported by adults across different countries and explore the impact of different demographic factors on response patterns. The study used a cross-sectional surv[...]
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The objectives of this study were to investigate the effects of place of stimulation on cortical auditory evoked potentials in relation to speech performance in cochlear implant listeners. It was designed that cortical responses were recorded fo[...]
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Objective: This study aimed to explore participants’ experiences after undertaking an Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy intervention (ICBT) for tinnitus.
Design: Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted 6–8 months af[...]
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