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Factors Influencing the Hearing Aids Use and Satisfaction: A Review Study
Journal of Modern Rehabilitation, 2020 Introduction: Hearing loss is a common problem that may end in disability and handicap. The primary treatment of hearing loss is using hearing aids. However, many patients, despite being aware of this problem, are not interested in using these devices ...
Mahsa Hamidi Pouyandeh, Reza Hoseinabadi
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Biomimetic direction of arrival estimation for resolving front-back confusions in hearing aids [PDF]
, 2015 Sound sources at the same angle in front or behind a two-microphone array (e.g., bilateral hearing aids) produce the same time delay and two estimates for the direction of arrival: A front-back confusion.
Aichner W. R. +6 more
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Cognition and hearing aids [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2009 The perceptual information transmitted from a damaged cochlea to the brain is more poorly specified than information from an intact cochlea and requires more processing in working memory before language content can be decoded. In addition to making sounds audible, current hearing aids include several technologies that are intended to facilitate ...
Lunner, Thomas +2 more
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Acclimatization to Hearing Aids [PDF]
Ear & Hearing, 2014 Evidence for a clinically significant effect of acclimatization to hearing aids is mixed. The aim of this study was to test for auditory acclimatization effects in new unilateral and bilateral adult hearing aid users. Hypotheses were i) there would be improvements in aided speech recognition in new hearing aid users, compared with unaided listening and
Dawes, Piers +3 more
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Development of a music perception test for adult hearing-aid users
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011 The purpose of this research was two-fold. Firstly to develop a music perception test for hearing aid users and secondly to evaluate the influence of non-linear frequency compression (NFC) on music perception with the use of the self-compiled test.
Marinda Uys, Catherine van Dijk
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Evaluation of Factors Affecting Hearing Aid Use in Children
Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2023 Objective:The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting hearing aid use in children and investigate how these factors affected their subjective auditory performance.Methods:The study was carried out with 34 children aged three to six ...
Nurşah Özal +2 more
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Trends in Hearing, 2014 The signal processing and fitting methods used for hearing aids have mainly been designed to optimize the intelligibility of speech. Little attention has been paid to the effectiveness of hearing aids for listening to music. Perhaps as a consequence, many hearing-aid users complain that they are not satisfied with their hearing aids when listening to ...
Brian C. J. Moore, Sara Miay Kim Madsen
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Comparison of hearing aid outcome measures in adult hearing aid users [PDF]
, 2016 Hearing aid outcome measures have become an essential part of audiological intervention. This study aimed to explore hearing aid benefit in Maltese hearing aid users through subjective and objective outcome measures.
Miggiani, Pauline, Tabone, Nadine
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Encoding of speech sounds at auditory brainstem level in good and poor hearing aid performers
Brazilian Journal of OtorhinolaryngologyIntroduction: Hearing aids are prescribed to alleviate loss of audibility. It has been reported that about 31% of hearing aid users reject their own hearing aid because of annoyance towards background noise.
Hemanth Narayan Shetty +1 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Hearing aids are the most common rehabilitation strategy for age-related hearing loss. However, 25% to 50% of older adults fitted with hearing aids do not wear them post-fitting. Hearing aid self-efficacy has been suggested as one of the key factors that
Eduardo Fuentes-López +3 more
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