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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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Time From Hearing Aid Candidacy to Hearing Aid Adoption: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
Ear and Hearing, 2018 Objectives: Although many individuals with hearing loss could benefit from intervention with hearing aids, many do not seek or delay seeking timely treatment after the onset of hearing loss.
A. Simpson +3 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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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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Factors influencing the choice of prescribed hearing aid [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2012 In our paper we would like to emphasize the complexity of hearing aid prescription process. It is connected to a series of factors which impact the choice of hearing aid; type of hearing loss, degree of hearing loss according to the average hearing ...
Živić Ljubica, Živić Danijela
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Disability and Rehabilitation, 2019 Purpose Research on stigma has been criticized for centering on the perceptions of individuals and their effect on social interactions rather than studying stigma as a dynamic and relational phenomenon as originally defined by Goffman.
J. Ruusuvuori +6 more
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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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BMC Geriatrics, 2019 Background The percentage of older adults with hearing loss who stop using their hearing aids and the variables associated with this phenomenon have not been systematically investigated in South America.
Eduardo Fuentes-López +3 more
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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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