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SATISFACTION WITH THE USE OF HEARING AIDS IN EVERYDAY LIFE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Research in Rehabilitation, 2023
The aim of this work was to investigate the qualitative characteristics of hearing aid users (satisfaction with the use of hearing aids in everyday life) and to determine if there are any differences compared to published research in the literature ...
Esad H. Mahmutovic   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Separation of multiple signals in hearing aids by output decorrelation and time-delay estimation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Sensori-neural hearing impaired listeners have difficulty in separating multiple signals or perceiving speech in background noise and hearing aids are widely used to enhance the desired signal.
Bamford, P, Canagarajah, CN
core   +2 more sources

Aging, Cognitive Decline and Hearing Loss: Effects of Auditory Rehabilitation and Training with Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants on Cognitive Function and Depression among Older Adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A growing interest in cognitive effects associated with speech and hearing processes is spreading throughout the scientific community essentially guided by evidence that central and peripheral hearing loss is associated with cognitive decline.
Benatti, Alice   +10 more
core   +1 more source

A comprehensive survey of hearing questionnaires: how many are there, what do they measure, and how have they been validated? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The self-report questionnaire is a popular tool for measuring outcomes in trials of interventions for hearing impairment. Many have been designed over the last fifty years, and there is no single standard questionnaire that is widely accepted and used ...
Akeroyd, Michael A.   +3 more
core   +7 more sources

Evaluation of Noise Reduction Algorithms in Hearing Aids for Multiple Signals From Equal or Different Directions

open access: yesTrends in Hearing, 2018
One objective way to evaluate the effect of noise reduction algorithms in hearing aids is to measure the increase in signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR). To this end, Hagerman and Olofsson presented a method where multiple recordings take place and the phase of ...
Hendrik Husstedt   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unilateral hearing loss and the use of hearing aid: speech recognition, benefit, self-perception of functional performance and satisfaction

open access: yesRevista CEFAC, 2019
Purpose: to investigate speech recognition in silence and in noise in subjects with unilateral hearing loss with and without hearing aids, and to analyze the benefit, self-perception of functional performance, satisfaction and the use of hearing aids in ...
Lidiéli Dalla Costa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biomimetic direction of arrival estimation for resolving front-back confusions in hearing aids [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Perceptions about hearing aids from elderly non-users: a bicultural point of view (Italy and USA)

open access: yesAudiology Research, 2011
Perceptions about hearing aids can vary across people of different cultural backgrounds depending upon beliefs, healthcare policies, education, etc. This study investigated the perceptions about hearing aids of non-user elderly subjects from Italy (IT ...
B. Alvarado
doaj   +1 more source

Consensus on hearing aid candidature and fitting for mild hearing loss, with and without tinnitus: Delphi review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Objectives: In many countries including the United Kingdom, hearing aids are a first line of audiologic intervention for many people with tinnitus and aidable hearing loss.
Avery   +18 more
core   +2 more sources

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