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Evaluation of home-delivered live-voice auditory training for adult hearing aid users involving their communication partners: a randomised controlled trial.
- Source :
- International Journal of Audiology; Jan2023, Vol. 62 Issue 1, p89-99, 11p, 3 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- To examine the benefits of home-delivered auditory training for adult hearing aid users using live-voice conversations in the presence of a single-talker distractor (experimental group) or in quiet (active-control group). Randomised controlled trial. The experimental group held conversations with their nominated communication partner in the presence of a single-talker distractor set to a challenging level, 30 min/day, 5 days/week over 4 weeks. The active-control group held comparable conversations in quiet. Behavioural outcome measures of speech-in-noise perception, cognition and self-reported hearing difficulties were assessed pre- and post-training. Participant feedback was obtained. Thirty-nine hearing aid users (32 males, 7 females, mean age = 73.02 years, SD = 4.71 years) and their communication partners. The experimental group significantly improved and outperformed the active-control group for words-in-noise perception. Both groups achieved improvements in self-reported hearing difficulty while only the experimental group improved on dual-task. Subjectively, both groups found live-voice conversations beneficial and reported increased concentration and listening skills. Home-delivered live-voice auditory training with communication partners shows potential to improve outcomes for adult hearing aid users, regardless of the presence or absence of a competing speech distractor. Further research is required to assess mechanisms of benefit and distractor effects within carefully controlled experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SPEECH perception
HEARING impaired
ANALYSIS of variance
HOME rehabilitation
SELF-evaluation
COGNITION
HEARING aids
TREATMENT effectiveness
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
DIARY (Literary form)
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
QUESTIONNAIRES
REPEATED measures design
RESEARCH funding
REHABILITATION
STATISTICAL sampling
DATA analysis software
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14992027
- Volume :
- 62
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Audiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161131462
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2021.2005834