Acceptable noise level as a predictor of hearing aid use

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 626-639

  Nabelek, Anna K ^a   Freyaldenhoven, Melinda C ^b   Tampas, Joanna W ^a   Burchfield, Samuel ^a   Muenchen, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptable noise level; Background noise; Hearing aid use; Hearing aids; Speech perception in noise

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE NOISE LEVEL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BACKGROUND NOISE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750169477     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.17.9.2     Document Type: Article

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