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The assessment of sound perception in hearing aids, especially in the context of benefits that a prosthesis can bring, is a complex issue. The objective parameters of the hearing aids can easily be determined. These parameters, however, do not always have a direct and decisive influence on the subjective assessment of quality of the patient’s hearing while using a hearing aid. The paper presents the development of a method for the assessment of auditory perception and the effectiveness of applying hearing aids for hearing-impaired people during a short-term use. The method involves a questionnaire based on the APHA (Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit) assessment questionnaire, a measure of self-reported auditory disability. The study includes additional criteria, such as measuring the number of hours and days of use of hearing aids, the degree of hearing loss and thepatient’s experience. A web-based application is developed to enable to carry out such an examination from any computer with access to the network. The research results show that in the first period of use of hearing aids, speech perception improves, especially in noisy environments. The perception of unpleasant sounds also increases, which leads to deterioration of hearing aid acceptance by their users.
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Piotr Szymański
- GEERS Akustyka Słuchu
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Tomasz Poremski
- GEERS Akustyka Słuchu
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
- Published in:
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
no. 144,
pages 1834 - 1835,
ISSN: 0001-4966 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Bibliographic description:
- Szymański P., Poremski T., Kostek B.: The influence of time of hearing aid use on auditory perception in various acoustic situations// Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. -Vol. 144, nr. 3 (2018), s.1834-1835
- DOI:
- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1121/1.5068083
- Sources of funding:
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- Statutory activity/subsidy
- Verified by:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
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