Speech perception performance in patients with sensorineural hearing impairment aided with hearing aids
WANG Shuo
DONG Ruijuan
VOSS Solveig Christina
QIAN Jinyu
WU Yanjun
ZHANG Hua
Abstract：Objective This study was aimed at evaluating the speech perception performance in sensorineural hear-ing-impaired listeners with hearing aids. Methods Thirty subjects with sensorineural hearing loss were recruited, including 13 males and 17 females with the age ranging from 26 to 86 years. They had bilaterally symmetric hearing loss with the av-eraged 0.5-4 kHz PTA ranging from 40 to 75 dB HL. They were fitted with Phonak Bolero Q50 BTE hearing aids unilaterally. The Mandarin Speech Test Materials (MSTMs) software was used to test speech perception performance under four condi-tions, including unaided quiet, aided quiet, unaided noisy and aided noisy environments. Results (1) After fitting hearing aids, the speech perception score in quiet using bisyllabic materials improved by 35.1±19.5%in average, and the speech per-ception score in noise using sentence materials improved by 32.8±22.8%. (2) There was a significantly negative correlation between the speech perception performance with hearing aid and pure tone hearing thresholds. (3) The subjects who had their aided benefits better than the average all had hearing thresholds greater than 50 dB HL, although with large individual differences. Conclusion Hearing aid fitting is an effective approach for sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners to improve their speech perception ability. However, sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners with similar degrees and configurations may show large varying abilities to understand speech with hearing aids.
Keywords：sensorineural hearing lossspeech audiometryspeech perception hearing aids
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 578-582 )