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Some Considerations for the Use of the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) as a Hearing-Aid Outcome Measure. 使用助听器效益简表（APHAB）作为助听器结果测量的一些考虑。

IF 3 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1177/23312165251359755

Larry E Humes, Sumitrajit Dhar, Jasleen Singh

{"title":"Some Considerations for the Use of the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) as a Hearing-Aid Outcome Measure.","authors":"Larry E Humes, Sumitrajit Dhar, Jasleen Singh","doi":"10.1177/23312165251359755","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165251359755","url":null,"abstract":"The Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) has been one of the most frequently used patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) since its inception 30 years ago. For the APHAB, single-valued 95% critical differences have been presented for the identification and interpretation of meaningful benefits in research and in the clinic. A narrative literature review of studies that used the global APHAB score as a hearing-aid outcome measure showed that the average benefit varied directly with the average unaided baseline score for each measure. Next, data from 584 older adults enrolled in our recently completed randomized controlled hearing-aid trial were examined. The same dependence of benefit scores on unaided baseline scores was observed in these data. Regression to the mean made relatively minor contributions to the observed dependence of APHAB scores on baseline unaided scores. These results indicate that the application of a single value for the 95% critical difference is not valid for the interpretation of APHAB scores. Rather, baseline-specific benefit criteria are needed. Based on these results, baseline-specific Minimal Detectable Differences (MDDs; or 95% critical differences) and Minimal Clinically Important Differences (MCIDs) using both distribution-based and anchor-based approaches were generated for the APHAB-global score.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"29 ","pages":"23312165251359755"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12290275/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144683483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Integrating Audiological Datasets via Federated Merging of Auditory Profiles. 通过听觉档案的联合合并整合听力学数据集。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1177/23312165251349617

Samira Saak, Dirk Oetting, Birger Kollmeier, Mareike Buhl

{"title":"Integrating Audiological Datasets via Federated Merging of Auditory Profiles.","authors":"Samira Saak, Dirk Oetting, Birger Kollmeier, Mareike Buhl","doi":"10.1177/23312165251349617","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165251349617","url":null,"abstract":"Audiological datasets contain valuable knowledge about hearing loss in patients, which can be uncovered using data-driven techniques. Our previous approach summarized patient information from one audiological dataset into distinct Auditory Profiles (APs). To obtain a better estimate of the audiological patient population, however, patient patterns must be analyzed across multiple, separated datasets, and finally, be integrated into a combined set of APs. This study aimed at extending the existing profile generation pipeline with an AP merging step, enabling the combination of APs from different datasets based on their similarity across audiological measures. The 13 previously generated APs (NA = 595) were merged with 31 newly generated APs from a second dataset (NB = 1,272) using a similarity score derived from the overlapping densities of common features across the two datasets. To ensure clinical applicability, random forest models were created for various scenarios, encompassing different combinations of audiological measures. A new set with 13 combined APs is proposed, providing separable profiles, which still capture detailed patient information from various test outcome combinations. The classification performance across these profiles is satisfactory. The best performance was achieved using a combination of loudness scaling, audiogram, and speech test information, while single measures performed worst. The enhanced profile generation pipeline demonstrates the feasibility of combining APs across datasets, which should generalize to all datasets and could lead to an interpretable global profile set in the future. The classification models maintain clinical applicability.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"29 ","pages":"23312165251349617"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209579/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Impact of Hearing Impairment on Independent Travel in Individuals With Normal Vision, Low Vision, and Blindness. 听力障碍对正常视力、低视力和失明个体独立旅行的影响。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/23312165251347130

Philip Reed, Joseph Paul Nemargut, Judith E Goldstein, Coral E Dirks, Yingzi Xiong

{"title":"Impact of Hearing Impairment on Independent Travel in Individuals With Normal Vision, Low Vision, and Blindness.","authors":"Philip Reed, Joseph Paul Nemargut, Judith E Goldstein, Coral E Dirks, Yingzi Xiong","doi":"10.1177/23312165251347130","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165251347130","url":null,"abstract":"Individuals with dual sensory impairment (DSI) often have reduced independence in their daily activities. Vision impairment is consistently reported to play a more dominant role than hearing impairment on home-based daily living, while little is known regarding the relative impact of vision and hearing impairments on tasks such as independent travel that require interacting with more complex environments. To address this knowledge gap, we administered a semistructured survey in a convenience sample of 161 individuals with normal vision, low vision, or blindness, with or without hearing impairment. A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches was used to analyze the data. Compared to normal vision, low vision and blind participants were significantly less likely to be frequent travelers. Low vision participants reported that vision impairment had a greater impact than hearing impairment on their travel independence, while blind participants reported hearing impairment to have a greater impact than blindness on their travel independence. The unique challenges in blind individuals were highlighted by their concerns on localizing dynamic sounds such as traffic during travel. Seventy percent of the hearing-impaired participants wore hearing aids and reported high utility for speech perception, but there was a significant reduction in the utility of hearing aids for sound localization especially for the blind participants. Our results reveal the interaction between vision and hearing impairments on independent travel and emphasize the need for an integrated rehabilitation approach for this population.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"29 ","pages":"23312165251347130"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12123108/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144175377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Judging the Number and Gender of Talkers Present in an Auditory Scene Aided by Acoustic Beamforming. 声波束形成辅助下判断听觉场景中说话者的数量和性别。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/23312165251329791

Andrew J Byrne, Gerald Kidd

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Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Age-Related Hearing Loss: Results from a Longitudinal Twin Study. 遗传和环境因素对年龄相关性听力损失的影响：一项纵向双胞胎研究的结果。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1177/23312165251320156

Ryan M O'Leary, Arthur Wingfield, Michael J Lyons, Carol E Franz, William S Kremen

{"title":"Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Age-Related Hearing Loss: Results from a Longitudinal Twin Study.","authors":"Ryan M O'Leary, Arthur Wingfield, Michael J Lyons, Carol E Franz, William S Kremen","doi":"10.1177/23312165251320156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23312165251320156","url":null,"abstract":"Over 430 million people worldwide experience disabling hearing loss, a condition that becomes more prevalent with age. Although the genetic component to hearing loss has been well established, there has been less data available regarding changes in the genetic contributions to hearing loss over time. We report the pure tone hearing thresholds across 500, 1,000, 2,000, 4,000, and 8,000 Hz from over 1,000 male twins comprising monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) pairs sampled from the United States-based Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA). Twins were tested during three waves, at an average age of 56 at wave 1, an average age of 62 at wave 2, and an average age of 68 at wave 3. Genetically informed structural equation models were used to calculate the genetic contributions. Genetic factors accounted for between 49.4% and 67.7% of the variance in hearing acuity for all frequencies at all three time points. There was no substantial change in the ratio of genetic versus environmental contributions across the three time points, or across individual acoustic frequencies. The stability of hearing acuity over time was moderate to highly attributable to genetic factors. Change in hearing acuity was better explained by unique person-specific environmental factors. These results, from the largest-scale twin study of hearing acuity to date, replicate previous findings that hearing acuity in late life is significantly determined by genetic factors. The unique contribution of the present analysis is that the proportion of hearing acuity attributed to genetics remains relatively consistent across 12 years.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"29 ","pages":"23312165251320156"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12035256/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144057792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessment of Speech Processing and Listening Effort Associated With Speech-on-Speech Masking Using the Visual World Paradigm and Pupillometry. 使用视觉世界范式和瞳孔测量法评估语音对语音掩蔽相关的语音处理和听力努力。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165241306091

Khaled H A Abdel-Latif, Thomas Koelewijn, Deniz Başkent, Hartmut Meister

{"title":"Assessment of Speech Processing and Listening Effort Associated With Speech-on-Speech Masking Using the Visual World Paradigm and Pupillometry.","authors":"Khaled H A Abdel-Latif, Thomas Koelewijn, Deniz Başkent, Hartmut Meister","doi":"10.1177/23312165241306091","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165241306091","url":null,"abstract":"Speech-on-speech masking is a common and challenging situation in everyday verbal communication. The ability to segregate competing auditory streams is a necessary requirement for focusing attention on the target speech. The Visual World Paradigm (VWP) provides insight into speech processing by capturing gaze fixations on visually presented icons that reflect the speech signal. This study aimed to propose a new VWP to examine the time course of speech segregation when competing sentences are presented and to collect pupil size data as a measure of listening effort. Twelve young normal-hearing participants were presented with competing matrix sentences (structure \"name-verb-numeral-adjective-object\") diotically via headphones at four target-to-masker ratios (TMRs), corresponding to intermediate to near perfect speech recognition. The VWP visually presented the number and object words from both the target and masker sentences. Participants were instructed to gaze at the corresponding words of the target sentence without providing verbal responses. The gaze fixations consistently reflected the different TMRs for both number and object words. The slopes of the fixation curves were steeper, and the proportion of target fixations increased with higher TMRs, suggesting more efficient segregation under more favorable conditions. Temporal analysis of pupil data using Bayesian paired sample t-tests showed a corresponding reduction in pupil dilation with increasing TMR, indicating reduced listening effort. The results support the conclusion that the proposed VWP and the captured eye movements and pupil dilation are suitable for objective assessment of sentence-based speech-on-speech segregation and the corresponding listening effort.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"29 ","pages":"23312165241306091"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11726529/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142972857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Who Said That? The Effect of Hearing Ability on Following Sequential Utterances From Varying Talkers in Noise. 谁说的？听觉能力对不同说话人在噪声环境下接续话语的影响。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165251320794

Alexina Whitley, Timothy Beechey, Lauren V Hadley

{"title":"Who Said That? The Effect of Hearing Ability on Following Sequential Utterances From Varying Talkers in Noise.","authors":"Alexina Whitley, Timothy Beechey, Lauren V Hadley","doi":"10.1177/23312165251320794","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165251320794","url":null,"abstract":"Many of our conversations occur in nonideal situations, from the hum of a car to the babble of a cocktail party. Additionally, in conversation, listeners are often required to switch their attention between multiple talkers, which places demands on both auditory and cognitive processes. Speech understanding in such situations appears to be particularly demanding for older adults with hearing impairment. This study examined the effects of age and hearing ability on performance in an online speech recall task. Two target sentences, spoken by the same talker or different talkers, were presented one after the other, analogous to a conversational turn switch. The first target sentence was presented in quiet, and the second target sentence was presented alongside either a noise masker (steady-state speech-shaped noise) or a speech masker (another nontarget sentence). Relative to when the target talker remained the same between sentences, listeners were less accurate at recalling information in the second target sentence when the target talker changed, particularly when the target talker for sentence one became the masker for sentence two. Listeners with poorer speech-in-noise reception thresholds were less accurate in both noise- and speech-masked trials and made more masker confusions in speech-masked trials. Furthermore, an interaction revealed that listeners with poorer speech reception thresholds had particular difficulty when the target talker remained the same. Our study replicates previous research regarding the costs of switching nonspatial attention, extending these findings to older adults with a range of hearing abilities.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"29 ","pages":"23312165251320794"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11851761/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143484318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Improving Outcomes of Single-Sided Deaf Cochlear Implant Users by Reducing Interaural Frequency and Loudness Mismatches through Device Programming. 通过设备编程减少耳间频率和响度失配，改善单侧耳蜗植入者的预后。

IF 3 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1177/23312165251359415

Laura K Holden, Rosalie M Uchanski, Noël Y Dwyer, Ruth M Reeder, Timothy A Holden, Jill B Firszt

{"title":"Improving Outcomes of Single-Sided Deaf Cochlear Implant Users by Reducing Interaural Frequency and Loudness Mismatches through Device Programming.","authors":"Laura K Holden, Rosalie M Uchanski, Noël Y Dwyer, Ruth M Reeder, Timothy A Holden, Jill B Firszt","doi":"10.1177/23312165251359415","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165251359415","url":null,"abstract":"The study aimed to improve outcomes in Nucleus cochlear implant (CI) recipients with single-sided deafness (SSD) by reducing interaural frequency and loudness mismatches through device programming. In Experiment 1a, a modified frequency allocation table (FAT) was created to better match the tonotopicity of the contralateral ear and reduce interaural frequency mismatch. Twenty experienced SSD-CI users completed localization and speech recognition tests with their everyday FAT. Tests were repeated after 6 weeks' use of the modified FAT. Participants compared both FATs for 2 weeks before being tested again with each. For 10 newly implanted SSD-CI recipients (Experiment 1b), Group A was programmed with the manufacturer's default FAT and Group B with the modified FAT at activation. Speech recognition and localization were completed, after 6 weeks' use of each FAT. Participants then compared both FATs before testing with each. In Experiment 2, 15 experienced SSD-CI users were evaluated with their everyday program and a modified loudness program, which was created to obtain audibility of ∼20 dB HL from 0.25 to 6 kHz and balanced loudness between ears. Three test sessions occurred, resembling Experiment 1a. Experienced participants in Experiments 1a and 2 showed significant improvement in one speech-in-noise task with a modified program compared to the everyday program. Newly implanted recipients showed no significant difference in results between FATs. Results indicate that modified programs, created to reduce interaural mismatches, may improve outcomes. The first month after activation might be too early to compare FATs as SSD-CI recipients are adjusting to electric hearing.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"29 ","pages":"23312165251359415"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12317272/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144754854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Children With Bilateral Cochlear Implants Show Emerging Spatial Hearing of Stationary and Moving Sound. 植入双侧人工耳蜗的儿童表现出对静止和运动声音的空间听力。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1177/23312165251356333

Robel Z Alemu, Alan Blakeman, Angela L Fung, Melissa Hazen, Jaina Negandhi, Blake C Papsin, Sharon L Cushing, Karen A Gordon

{"title":"Children With Bilateral Cochlear Implants Show Emerging Spatial Hearing of Stationary and Moving Sound.","authors":"Robel Z Alemu, Alan Blakeman, Angela L Fung, Melissa Hazen, Jaina Negandhi, Blake C Papsin, Sharon L Cushing, Karen A Gordon","doi":"10.1177/23312165251356333","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165251356333","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial hearing in children with bilateral cochlear implants (BCIs) was assessed by: (a) comparing localization of stationary and moving sound, (b) investigating the relationship between sound localization and sensitivity to interaural level and timing differences (ILDs/ITDs), (c) evaluating effects of aural preference on sound localization, and (d) exploring head and eye (gaze) movements during sound localization. Children with BCIs (n = 42, MAge = 12.3 years) with limited duration of auditory deprivation and peers with typical hearing (controls; n = 37, MAge = 12.9 years) localized stationary and moving sound with unrestricted head and eye movements. Sensitivity to binaural cues was measured by a lateralization task to ILDs and ITDs. Spatial separation effects were measured by spondee-word recognition thresholds (SNR thresholds) when noise was presented in front (colocated/0°) or with 90° of left/right separation. BCI users had good speech reception thresholds (SRTs) in quiet but higher SRTs in noise than controls. Spatial separation of noise from speech revealed a greater advantage for the right ear across groups. BCI users showed increased errors localizing stationary sound and detecting moving sound direction compared to controls. Decreased ITD sensitivity occurred with poorer localization of stationary sound in BCI users. Gaze movements in BCI users were more random than controls for stationary and moving sounds. BCIs support symmetric hearing in children with limited duration of auditory deprivation and promote spatial hearing which is albeit impaired. Spatial hearing was thus considered to be \"emerging.\" Remaining challenges may reflect disruptions in ITD sensitivity and ineffective gaze movements.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"29 ","pages":"23312165251356333"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12227942/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144561560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Two Tests for Quantifying Aided Hearing at Low- and High-Input Levels. 在低和高输入水平下量化辅助听力的两种测试。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/23312165251322299

Carl Pedersen, Jesper Hvass Schmidt, Ellen Raben Pedersen, Chris Bang Sørensen, Søren Laugesen

{"title":"Two Tests for Quantifying Aided Hearing at Low- and High-Input Levels.","authors":"Carl Pedersen, Jesper Hvass Schmidt, Ellen Raben Pedersen, Chris Bang Sørensen, Søren Laugesen","doi":"10.1177/23312165251322299","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165251322299","url":null,"abstract":"Under- and overamplification of sound is a common problem in hearing aid fitting. This paper describes the implementation of two new variants of the hearing in noise test for quantifying aided hearing at the lower and upper ends of the range of everyday-life sound levels. We present results from experiments carried out with 30 adult hearing aid users to determine the respective test-retest reliabilities. Participants completed a test battery consisting of the standard Danish hearing in noise test, a variant targeting the lower threshold of audibility and a variant targeting the limit of loudness discomfort. The participants completed the test battery twice for reliability analysis. The results revealed a significant difference between test and retest for both the hearing in noise test and the two hearing in noise test variants. However, the effect sizes for the differences were all very small. A calculation of Pearson correlation coefficients showed that both the hearing in noise test and the two new hearing in noise test variants had significant and strong correlations between test and retest. The within-subject standard deviations were determined to be 0.8 dB for hearing in noise test, 0.9 dB for lower-end test, and 2.2 dB for upper-end test. The findings demonstrate that both the lower-end test and upper-end test have high test-retest reliabilities, and thus can provide consistent and reliable results.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"29 ","pages":"23312165251322299"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11920982/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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