Gain adjustment at tinnitus pitch to manage both tinnitus and speech perception in noise.

ABSTRACT: To investigate how much gain variation is required from prescription to effect tinnitus percept, and if this revised prescription affects speech recognition. Twenty participants who experienced catastrophic tinnitus even after fitted with hearing aid were included. Participants were grouped based on their tinnitus pitch and the prescriptive formula used to fit hearing aid. They were evaluated for handicap from tinnitus using Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI). Hearing aid was programmed using either NAL- NL2 or DSL (I/o) v5 prescriptive formula and gain at tinnitus pitch was adjusted till the tinnitus get suppressed. SNR 50 was determined soon after fitted with hearing aid and 30 days of hearing aid use. Further, THI and international outcome inventory for hearing aid (IOI-HA) were determin

SUBMITTER: Shetty HN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7387839 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature