Investigation into the verification of the Synapsys videonystagmography (VNG) Ulmer calibration system.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of the study was to analyse the role of sound avoidance and anxiety in tinnitus subjects with hyperacusis, defined as hypersensitivity to low to moderate intensity sounds. DESIGN:A group of tinnitus subjects with hyperacusis was compared to tinnitus subjects without hyperacusis, and healthy contr...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Blaesing L,Kroener-Herwig B

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：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 around the world. RESULTS:The dominant conceptualisation of APD remains one...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Wilson WJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efferent auditory pathway is known to alter the cochlear electrical properties, at low stimulus levels. This study aims to identify the effect of activation of the efferent auditory pathway through contralateral wide- and narrow-band noise at high sound levels. Acoustical reflex threshold and acoustical reflex amp...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Kumar A,Barman A

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with dichotic left ear deficits received intensive training in phase I and phase II clinical trials designed to establish the efficacy of directly training dichotic listening. Dichotic verbal material was presented in the sound field with intensity adjusted separately for each speaker. Output from the right-s...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Moncrieff DW,Wertz D

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:The reliability of the Auditory Steady State Response (ASSR) has not been thoroughly evaluated despite its recent application as a clinical tool for threshold estimation. The purpose of this study was to examine test-retest (TR) reliability of ASSR threshold estimates in an empirical research design. The ASSR, tested ...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Kaf WA,Sabo DL,Durrant JD,Rubinstein E

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study describes characteristics, behaviours and readiness of people who are interested in seeking hearing healthcare (HHC) online. DESIGN:A non-profit clinic was established from which services through a virtual clinic are offered. Most of the patient-audiologist interactions are conducted online. We us...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Ratanjee-Vanmali H,Swanepoel W,Laplante-Lévesque A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Inflammaging, a state of chronic inflammation in the elderly, is now thought to be a key element of the ageing process and contributor to age-related disease. In a previously published study, we identified a significant association between inflammation levels and severity of presbycusis among individuals aged...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Verschuur C,Agyemang-Prempeh A,Newman TA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of adult cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) can be challenging when the stimulus is just audible. The effectiveness of a statistic compared with expert examiners in (1) detecting the presence of CAEPs when stimuli were present, and (2) reporting the absence of CAEPs when no stimuli were present,...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Golding M,Dillon H,Seymour J,Carter L

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:For a noise-exposed group of workers, group-averaged and individual changes were compared for pure-tone audiometry, transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs), and distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) in order to see if they exhibit the same pattern in time. DESIGN:Baseline and 17-months fo...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Helleman HW,Dreschler WA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The primary purpose of this study was to compare Listening in Spatialized Noise - Sentence (LiSN-S) test and the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) thresholds in order to determine if the two tests measure the same construct (convergent validity). The secondary purpose was to determine performance differences betw...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Vermiglio AJ,Bulla E,Skinner J,Heeke P,Fang X,Velappan K,Bonilla E,Garner E

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To obtain clinicians' views on the use of cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEP) in the clinical pathway.Design: A questionnaire aimed at clinicians who use the HEARLab system with the Aided Cortical Assessment (ACA) Module. Results compared for Australians (where HEARLab produced) to other countries.Sa...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Mehta K,Mahon M,Van Dun B,Marriage J,Vickers D

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To design a test battery and conduct a proof-of-concept experiment of a test method that can be used to measure the detection performance afforded by military advanced hearing protection devices (HPDs) and tactical communication and protective systems (TCAPS). DESIGN:The detection test was conducted with eac...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Lee K,Casali JG

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The objective of the study was to examine the effects of stimulus duration on vowel perception in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired children. For this purpose, 80 semisynthetic vowel stimuli consisting of eight different Turkish vowels with ten different durations were presented to 14 normal-hearing and 15 hearing i...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Kiliç MA,Yildirim I,Okur E,Oğüt F,Serbetçioğlu B

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we present a new method to derive a single-number measure of the directivity of hearing aids. The method is an extension of the conventional directivity index (DI), and is called overall directivity index (ODI). The directivities of five different hearing aid styles were compared with that of the open e...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Olsen HL,Hagerman B

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:This study investigated categorical loudness scaling in a large group of cochlear implant (CI) recipients. DESIGN:Categorical loudness was measured for individually determined sets of current amplitudes on apical, mid and basal electrodes of the Nucleus array. STUDY SAMPLE:Thirty adult subjects implanted wi...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Busby PA,Au A

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on an evaluation of a structured group therapy intervention for adult cochlear implant (CI) recipients designed to improve overall communication and coping skills. 33 adult CI recipients (14 males, 19 females; mean age 61; 1-14 years since Cl) participated in a 2-day structured group therapy interve...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Heydebrand G,Mauze E,Tye-Murray N,Binzer S,Skinner M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Audiometric measurements through a hearing aid ('in-situ') may facilitate provision of hearing services where these are limited. This study investigated the validity and reliability of in-situ air conduction hearing thresholds measured with closed and open domes relative to thresholds measured with insert earphones, a...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： O'Brien A,Keidser G,Yeend I,Hartley L,Dillon H

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:The aim of this study was to investigate long-term development of hearing in subjects who had received platinum-based chemotherapy in childhood or adolescence. Another aim was to assess the self-reported hearing loss handicap and compare it to audiometric measurements. Medical records from individuals diagnosed with c...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

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

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To validate the hyperacusis questionnaire (HQ) in different strata of emotional exhaustion (EE). DESIGN:HQ-scores and uncomfortable loudness levels (ULLs) were assessed in 348 individuals (140 men and 208 women) with low, intermediate, and high EE-levels. RESULTS:Four individuals (1.1%) met the critical val...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Wallén MB,Hasson D,Theorell T,Canlon B

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment investigated the effect of small-group versus individual hearing loss prevention (HLP) training on the attenuation performance of passive insert-type hearing protection devices (HPDs). A subject-fit (SF) methodology, which gave naive listeners access only to the instructions printed on the HPD product ...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Joseph A,Punch J,Stephenson M,Paneth N,Wolfe E,Murphy W

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:(1) To investigate whether voice gender discrimination (VGD) could be a useful indicator of the spectral and temporal processing abilities of individual cochlear implant (CI) users; (2) To examine the relationship between VGD and speech recognition with CI when comparable acoustic cues are used for both perc...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Li T,Fu QJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-auricular muscle responses (PAMRs) were recorded in sixteen adults with normal hearing and twenty adults with sensorineural hearing loss. Click stimuli were presented at 20 to 80 dB nHL via insert earphones. Only one ear was tested in hearing-impaired subjects, but normal-hearing subjects were tested monaurally a...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Purdy SC,Agung KB,Hartley D,Patuzzi RB,O'Beirne GA

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the impact of hearing aids on mental health, social engagement, cognitive function, and physical health outcomes in older adults with hearing impairment. DESIGN:We assessed hearing handicap (hearing handicap inventory for the elderly; HHIE-S), cognition (mini mental state exam, trail making, audit...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： Dawes P,Cruickshanks KJ,Fischer ME,Klein BE,Klein R,Nondahl DM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A cisplatin ototoxicity monitoring protocol was recently proposed using distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) measured in 1/48th octave steps over the highest obtainable quarter octave ( Dille et al, 2010 ). This protocol can take up to 40 minutes to complete in both ears among seriously ill patie...

journal_title：International journal of audiology

authors： McMillan GP,Konrad-Martin D,Dille MF

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00