Validity and reliability of in-situ air conduction thresholds measured through hearing aids coupled to closed and open instant-fit tips.

abstract：:The primary aim of this study was to examine the effects of frequency-modulated (FM) settings on speech-recognition performance in noise of listeners using two different cochlear implant speech processors. Participants included eight users of ESPrit 3G speech processors and nine users of Auria speech processors. A mod...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Schafer EC,Wolfe J,Lawless T,Stout B

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose was to investigate the relationship between noise exposure and tinnitus among workers with normal hearing and hearing loss, respectively. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 752 workers employed at 91 workplaces, that were investigated by means of full work-shift noise levels, questionnaire data, and ...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Rubak T,Kock S,Koefoed-Nielsen B,Lund SP,Bonde JP,Kolstad HA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the current status of newborn/infant hearing screening programs in public sector hospitals in South Africa by means of a descriptive survey. Data was gathered using a self-administered postal questionnaire, which included questions on screening resources and protocols, follow-u...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Theunissen M,Swanepoel D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to understand the parental perspective on paediatric cochlear implantation over time. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted with 216 families of children who were implanted at the Nottingham Paediatric Cochlear Implant Programme between 1989 and 2002, and who were attendi...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Sach TH,Whynes DK

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate word recognition in noise in subjects treated in childhood with chemotherapy, study benefits of open-fitting hearing-aids for word recognition, and investigate whether self-reported hearing-handicap corresponded to subjects' word recognition ability. DESIGN:Subjects diagnosed with cancer and t...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Einarsson EJ,Petersen H,Wiebe T,Fransson PA,Magnusson M,Moëll C

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensorineurally hearing-impaired (HI) subjects often report difficulties in complex acoustical environments. To investigate whether these problems arise from specific deficits in the frequency selectivity in binaural listening conditions, thresholds were measured for a 500-Hz sinusoid in phase (So) or antiphase (Spi) ...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Nitschmann M,Verhey JL,Kollmeier B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate self-reported outcomes among hearing aid users (age 16-89 years; mean 45.8 years) to determine the effectiveness of aural rehabilitation in Nigeria based on the International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA). The responses were evaluated with descriptive statistics, fac...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Olusanya B

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Endolymphatic sac tumours (ELSTs) of the inner ear occur in 16% of patients with the hereditary tumor syndrome von Hippel-Lindau disease (vHL). ELSTs of all sizes can cause irreversible hearing loss which can, however, be prevented through early diagnosis and treatment. We aim to emphasize the challenges of p...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Binderup ML,Gimsing S,Kosteljanetz M,Thomsen C,Bisgaard ML

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with listening difficulties, but normal audiometry, may be diagnosed with APD. The diagnosis is typically based on poor performance on tests of perception of both non-speech and speech stimuli. However, non-speech test results correlate only weakly with evaluations of speech-in-noise processing, cognitive ski...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Moore DR,Rosen S,Bamiou DE,Campbell NG,Sirimanna T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In a clinical setting, theories of health behaviour change could help audiologists and other hearing health care professionals understand the barriers that prevent people with hearing problems to seek audiological help. The transtheoretical (stages of change) model of health behaviour change is one of these t...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Ingo E,Brännström KJ,Andersson G,Lunner T,Laplante-Lévesque A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new questionnaire, developed to investigate self-reported hearing difficulties in unilateral deafness, was completed by 221 post-surgical vestibular schwannoma patients. Results were compared to a group of 51 normal hearers and 12 patients with severe unilateral deafness from other causes. The vestibular schwannoma ...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： McLeod B,Upfold L,Taylor A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: This systematic review investigated if hearing aid use was associated with acute improvements in cognitive function in hearing-impaired adults. Design: The review question and inclusion/exclusion criteria were designed using the Population, Intervention, Control, Outcomes, and Study design (PICOS) mnemonic....

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Kalluri S,Ahmann B,Munro KJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Providing appropriate feedback to caregivers is an important part of the paediatric audiological assessment. This preliminary study explored caregiver recall and understanding of audiological diagnostic information subsequent to an initial paediatric diagnostic assessment. DESIGN:A qualitative study was cond...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Watermeyer J,Kanji A,Cohen A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This Cochrane Corner features the review entitled "Platinum-induced hearing loss after treatment for childhood cancer" published in 2016. In their review, van As et al. identified 13 cohort studies including 2837 participants with a hearing test after treatment with a platinum-based therapy for different types of chil...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Brennan-Jones CG,McMahen C,Van Dalen EC

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of consecutive 1000-Hz tympanometry testing on admittance measures, and examine test-retest reliability. DESIGN:Repeated measures with eight trials of 1000-Hz Y(a) and B(a)/G(a) tympanometry, respectively, in two ears of each subject, followed by repeated 226-Hz tympanometry. STUDY...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Carazo CD,Sun XM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patient-centred care is a term frequently associated with quality health care. Despite extensive literature from a range of health-care professions that provide description and measurement of patient-centred care, a definition of patient-centredness in audiological rehabilitation is lacking. The current study...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Grenness C,Hickson L,Laplante-Lévesque A,Davidson B

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To compare the temporal processing skills and speech in noise perception of hearing-impaired individuals through channel free and multichannel hearing aids.Design: A quasi-experimental study.Study sample: Twenty-one participants with sensory neural hearing loss were involved in the study. They were subjecte...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Mohan KM,Rajashekhar B

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: This clinical note describes the Individualised - Active Communication Education (I-ACE) programme designed to improve problem solving and self-management in adults with hearing impairment. Design: The I-ACE was offered to adult clients seeking help for the first time and effects were measured for participa...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Hickson L,Worrall L,Scarinci N,Laplante-Lévesque A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The primary purpose of the study was to compare intervention approaches for children with auditory processing disorder (APD): bottom-up training including activities focused on auditory perception, discrimination, and phonological awareness, and top-down training including a range of language activities. Anot...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Sharma M,Purdy SC,Kelly AS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to develop Polish sentence tests for accurate measuring of speech intelligibility in masking interfering noise. Two sets of sentence lists have been developed. The first set was composed of 25 lists and was used for sentence intelligibility scoring. The second set was composed of 22 lists and...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Ozimek E,Kutzner D,Sek A,Wicher A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tinnitus is a condition that is difficult to treat, and treatment outcomes are difficult to measure The majority of people who experience tinnitus are not troubled by it; however, the troubled minority are referred by an otorhinolaryngologist for specialist clinic help. The aim of this study was to investigate how the...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： El Refaie A,Davis A,Kayan A,Baskill J,Lovell E,Owen V

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Recent retrospective studies report differences in auditory neurophysiology between concussed athletes and uninjured controls using the frequency-following response (FFR). Adopting a prospective design in college football players, we compared FFRs before and after a concussion and evaluated test-retest relia...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Rauterkus G,Moncrieff D,Stewart G,Skoe E

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In a laboratory study, we found that normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners preferred less than normal overall calculated loudness (according to a loudness model of Moore & Glasberg, 1997). The current study verified those results using a research hearing aid. Fifteen hearing-impaired and eight normal-hearing p...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Smeds K,Keidser G,Zakis J,Dillon H,Leijon A,Grant F,Convery E,Brew C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of speech processing on articulatory-feature recognition was studied in a group of hearing-impaired listeners with high-frequency sensorineural losses. Individual difference scaling (INDSCAL) and sequential information analysis (SINFA) were applied to a set of consonant-vowel-consonant responses measured un...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Goedegebure A,Goedegebure-Hulshof M,Verschuure H,Dreschler WA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study is to assess the individual effect of reverberation and noise, as well as their combined effect, on speech intelligibility by cochlear implant (CI) users. DESIGN:Sentence stimuli corrupted by reverberation, noise, and reverberation + noise are presented to 11 CI listeners for word i...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Hazrati O,Loizou PC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confirmation of the conditions of the ossicles is essential for tympanoplasty. However, at present, ossicular mobility is experimentally estimated with palpation by a surgeon, and the results depend on the surgeon's skill. In this study, a new apparatus for quantitatively measuring ossicular mobility was developed. Wi...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Koike T,Murakoshi M,Hamanishi S,Yuasa Y,Yuasa R,Kobayashi T,Wada H

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyses results from the first Swedish UNHS program. It includes over 33 000 measurement files from 14 287 children at two maternity wards. The screening program uses a two-stage TEOAE test procedure. A database was created in MedLog after data transformation in Word and Excel. The coverage rate was 99.1%....

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Hergils L

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Persistent tinnitus affects 10 to 15% of adults. Little is understood about why only a small percentage of patients become severely affected. Catastrophic thinking has been suggested as one potentially relevant factor that might influence a patient's coping behavior, and thus tinnitus habituation. The current...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Weise C,Hesser H,Andersson G,Nyenhuis N,Zastrutzki S,Kröner-Herwig B,Jäger B

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This research assessed the reduction of peak levels, equivalent energy and sound power of firearm suppressors. DESIGN:The first study evaluated the effect of three suppressors at four microphone positions around four firearms. The second study assessed the suppressor-related reduction of sound power with a 3...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Murphy WJ,Flamme GA,Campbell AR,Zechmann EL,Tasko SM,Lankford JE,Meinke DK,Finan DS,Stewart M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evaluation of the Sennheiser HD 202 II supra-aural headphones as an alternative headphone to enable more affordable hearing screening. DESIGN:Study 1 measured the equivalent threshold sound pressure levels (ETSPL) of the Sennheiser HD 202 II. Study 2 evaluated the attenuation of the headphones. Study 3 deter...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Van der Aerschot M,Swanepoel de W,Mahomed-Asmail F,Myburgh HC,Eikelboom RH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00