Assessment of Objective Audiometry to Predict Subjective Satisfaction in Patients With Hearing Aids.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the correlation of objective audiometry with user satisfaction as measured with the questionnaire scores.

Methods

Twenty patients with hearing loss, who agreed to wear a hearing aid and were referred for hearing aid fitting, were included in this prospective clinical study. All patients used the in-the-canal type of Wide7 hearing aid provided by BSL Co., Ltd. We performed the Korean version of the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (K-HHIE) and the International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (K-IOI-HA) before and 1, 3, and 6 months after wearing the hearing aid. We also performed pure tone audiometry (PTA), speech audiometry (SA), functional gain (FG), hearing in noise test (HINT), and central auditory processing disorder tests, such as

SUBMITTER: Kwak MY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7248607 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature