Relationships among speech perception, self-rated tinnitus loudness and disability in tinnitus patients with normal pure-tone thresholds of hearing

ORL

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-29

  Huang, Chii Yuan ^a   Lee, Heng Huei ^a,b   Chung, Kao Chi ^a   Chen, Hsiao Chuan ^b   Shen, Yung Ji ^a   Wu, Jiunn Liang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Speech perception; Tinnitus disability; Tinnitus loudness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; MALE; MANDARIN SPEECH PERCEPTION IN NOISE TEST; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TINNITUS; TINNITUS HANDICAP INVENTORY; TINNITUS LOUDNESS SCALE;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TINNITUS;

EID: 33845758012     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000096713     Document Type: Article

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