Journal ArticleSemin Hear · February 2024
Tinnitus acoustic therapy is defined as any use of sound where the intent is to alter the tinnitus perception and/or the reactions to tinnitus in a clinically beneficial way. The parameters of sound that may cause beneficial effects, however, are currently ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · January 2024
OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of hearing loss increases with age. Untreated hearing loss is associated with poorer communication abilities and negative health consequences, such as increased risk of dementia, increased odds of falling, and depression. Nonethe ...
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Journal ArticleOtolaryngol Head Neck Surg · October 2023
OBJECTIVE: To determine adherence to the 2017 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) guidelines for the management and treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) in primary care (PC) and compare whether key recomme ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Audiol · June 2023
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between self-reported hearing handicap and life-space mobility utilizing the Life-Space Questionnaire (LSQ). Life-space mobility reflects how an individual moves through their daily physica ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Hear · May 2023
The goal of this study was to examine the effect of hearing loss on theta and alpha electroencephalography (EEG) frequency power measures of performance monitoring and cognitive inhibition, respectively, during a speech-in-noise task. It was hypothesized t ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Med · March 2023
Hearing loss is a prevalent chronic stressor among older adults and is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes. The life course principle of linked lives highlights that an individual's stressors can impact the health and well-being of others; how ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · September 2022
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to confirm that lexical factors associated with the Word Auditory Recognition and Recall Measure (WARRM) items have minimal impact WARRM scores. As the WARRM test was designed to minimize the impact of lexical factors ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · September 2022
OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study was to use theta and alpha electroencephalography (EEG) frequency power and self-report measures to examine performance monitoring, cognitive inhibition, and perceived effort required for speech understanding in noise. It ...
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Journal ArticleCost Eff Resour Alloc · June 25, 2022
BACKGROUND: Hearing loss is a high prevalence condition among older adults, is associated with higher-than-average risk for poor health outcomes and quality of life, and is a public health concern to individuals, families, communities, professionals, gover ...
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Journal ArticlePerspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups · June 13, 2022
Purpose:The purpose of this article was to provide a brief tutorial about impact metrics and how to use these metrics to document scientific impact. In addition, examples are provided tha ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · 2022
OBJECTIVES: Falls are considered a significant public health issue and falls risk increases with age. There are many age-related physiologic changes that occur that increase postural instability and the risk for falls (i.e., age-related sensory declines in ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · 2022
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to understand the functional impact of vestibular dysfunction on balance control in children with hearing loss. The vestibular system is an important contributor to maintaining balance. In adults, vestibular dysf ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · 2022
OBJECTIVES: In this study, we sought to evaluate whether older patients with hearing loss who underwent surgery were at greater risk of postsurgical complications, increased inpatient length-of-stay (LOS), and hospital readmission. DESIGN: This was a retro ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Popul Stud · 2022
There has been increasing attention to the role of hearing loss as a potentially modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. However, more nationally-representative studies are needed to understand the co-occurring changes in hear ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Audiol · December 9, 2021
This letter serves to respond to Powell et al.'s (2021) letter to the editor regarding our recent publication, "Preliminary Evidence on the Impact of Hearing Aid Use on Falls Risk in Individuals With Self-Reported Hearing Loss." In our letter, we respond t ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Audiol · December 9, 2021
PURPOSE: There is a paucity of data that directly compares the falls rate and dizziness handicap of different vestibular diagnoses. The purpose of this study is to compare the falls rate and dizziness handicap of common vestibular diagnoses encountered amo ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Audiol · December 9, 2021
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the test-retest reliability and the minimum detectable change (MDC) scores of the Listening Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (LSEQ). METHOD: A total of 77 older adults who were experienced hearing aid users we ...
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Journal ArticleOtolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · October 2021
ObjectiveTo describe the impact of vestibular dysfunction on gross motor development in children with hearing loss.Data sourcesMEDLINE (PubMed), Embase (Elsevier), Web of Science (Clarivate), and the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Audiol · June 14, 2021
Purpose Falls are considered a significant public health issue, and hearing loss has been shown to be an independent risk factor for falls. The primary objective of this study was to determine if hearing aid use modified (reduced) the association. We hypot ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Geriatr · May 11, 2020
BACKGROUND: The burden of hearing loss among older adults could be mitigated with appropriate care. This study compares implementation of three hearing screening strategies in primary care, and examines the reliability and validity of patient self-assessme ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · April 22, 2020
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate abbreviated versions of the Word Auditory Recognition and Recall Measure (WARRM) as part of an iterative process in the development of a feasible test for potential future clinical use. DE ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · 2020
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate abbreviated versions of the Word Auditory Recognition and Recall Measure (WARRM) as part of an iterative process in the development of a feasible test for potential future clinical use. DE ...
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Journal ArticleCanadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne · January 1, 2019
Audiologists can test memory with auditory or visual stimuli. Visual tests are immune to hearing loss, whereas auditory tests are ecologically relevant. In a previous study, an auditory test was preferred to a visual test because it yielded a greater range ...
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Journal ArticleJ Speech Lang Hear Res · August 1, 2016
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine if patient characteristics or clinical variables could predict who benefits from individual auditory training. METHOD: A retrospective series of analyses were performed using a data set from a large, mult ...
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Journal ArticleExp Aging Res · 2016
BACKGROUND/STUDY CONTEXT: Emotional content can enhance memory for visual stimuli, and older adults often perform better if stimuli portray positive emotion. Vocal emotion can enhance the accuracy of word repetition in noise when vocal prosody portrays att ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · 2016
OBJECTIVE: To examine the effectiveness of the Listening and Communication Enhancement (LACE) program as a supplement to standard-of-care hearing aid intervention in a Veteran population. DESIGN: A multisite randomized controlled trial was conducted to com ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · 2016
OBJECTIVE: Individuals with tinnitus and co-occurring psychological conditions typically rate their tinnitus as more disturbing than individuals without such comorbidities. Little is known about how tinnitus self-efficacy, or the confidence that individual ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · 2016
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to develop the Word Auditory Recognition and Recall Measure (WARRM) and to conduct the inaugural evaluation of the performance of younger adults with normal hearing, older adults with normal to near-normal hearing, ...
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Journal ArticlePsychol Aging · December 2015
Memory and hearing are critical domains that interact during older adults' daily communication and social encounters. To develop a more comprehensive picture of how aging influences performance in these domains, the roles of social variables such as views ...
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Journal ArticleNeuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn · 2015
Many standardized measures of cognition include items that must be seen or heard. Nevertheless, it is not uncommon to overlook the possible effects of sensory impairment(s) on test scores. In the current study, we investigated whether sensory impairments c ...
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Journal ArticleFront Psychol · 2015
Listeners with hearing loss commonly report having difficulty understanding speech, particularly in noisy environments. Their difficulties could be due to auditory and cognitive processing problems. Performance on speech-in-noise tests has been correlated ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Audiol · December 2013
PURPOSE: To examine the role of compliance in the outcomes of computer-based auditory training with the Listening and Communication Enhancement (LACE) program in Veterans using hearing aids. METHOD: The authors examined available LACE training data for 5 t ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Audiol · February 2013
BACKGROUND: Several self-report measures exist that target different aspects of outcomes for hearing aid use. Currently, no comprehensive questionnaire specifically assesses factors that may be important for differentiating outcomes pertaining to hearing a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Audiol · September 2012
BACKGROUND: The Revised Speech Perception in Noise Test (R-SPIN; Bilger, 1984b) is composed of 200 target words distributed as the last words in 200 low-predictability (LP) and 200 high-predictability (HP) sentences. Four list pairs, each consisting of two ...
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Journal ArticleEar Hear · 2012
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of Experiment 1 was to measure word recognition in younger adults with normal hearing when speech or babble was temporally or spectrally distorted. In Experiment 2, older listeners with near-normal hearing and with hearing loss (for ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Audiol · June 2011
OBJECTIVE: Listening self-efficacy refers to the beliefs, or confidence, that listeners have in their capability to successfully listen in specific situations, which may influence audiologic rehabilitation outcomes. The objective of this study was to devel ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Audiol · 2011
BACKGROUND: Self-efficacy refers to the beliefs (i.e., confidence) individuals have in their capabilities to perform skills needed to accomplish a specific goal or behavior. Research in the treatment of various health conditions such as chronic pain, balan ...
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Journal ArticleJ Acoust Soc Am · October 2010
Over 35 years (1962-1996), participants of the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study (NAS), a study of healthy aging in men, completed up to eight audiometric assessments. This report describes the age-related hearing trajectories of screened men (n=953) ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Audiol · June 2009
BACKGROUND: The International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA) was developed as a global hearing aid outcome measure targeting seven outcome domains. The published norms were based on a private-pay sample who were fitted with analog hearing aids ...
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Journal ArticleJ Rehabil Res Dev · 2008
With the increasing aging population, the number of veterans presenting with dual sensory impairment (DSI) (vision and hearing impairments) will increase. This study determined the prevalence and clinical characteristics of DSI in a veteran population rece ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Audiol · December 2007
Discontinued hearing-aid use is caused by a number of factors, most of which may lead to low hearing-aid self-efficacy (i.e. low confidence in one's ability to B a successful hearing-aid user). This paper describes the development of the Measure of Audiolo ...
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Journal ArticleJ Speech Lang Hear Res · August 2007
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine in listeners with normal hearing and listeners with sensorineural hearing loss the within- and between-group differences obtained with 4 commonly available speech-in-noise protocols. METHOD: Recognition per ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Audiol · June 2006
PURPOSE: The purpose of this tutorial is to provide a comprehensive overview of the self-efficacy framework and its application to audiologic rehabilitation. METHOD: A literature review was conducted on self-efficacy and its relevance to successful interve ...
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Journal ArticleAudiol Neurootol · 2003
The intelligibility of sentences recorded from the uterus of a pregnant ewe and from the near-term fetal sheep inner ear was judged by 30 listeners. Sentences were presented to the ewe at 95 and 105 dB SPL while sequential recordings of sound with a hydrop ...
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