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ArticleLaryngo- rhino- otologie2022

[Correlation between the APHAB questionnaire and the Freiburg monosyllabic test without + with noise].

Jan Löhler, Mathias Sippel, Leif Erik Walther, Rainer Schönweiler

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Article in Laryngo- rhino- otologie, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Jan LöhlerHNO-Praxis, Bad Bramstedt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9865-5731
Mathias SippelUniversitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Klinik für HNO-Heilkunde, Germany.
Leif Erik WaltherHNO-Gemeinschaftspraxis, Sulzbach, Germany.
Rainer SchönweilerUniversitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Klinik für HNO-Heilkunde, Sektion für Phoniatrie und Pädaudiologie, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundQuestionnaires, e. g. the APHAB, and speech-audiometry are the most used elements in measuring the success of hearing aid fitting (HAF). This study investigates the correlations between the results of the Freiburg monosyllabic word test without and with noise (FBE, FBE-S) and the results of the APHAB before and after HAF.

methodsData of the FBE, the FBE-S, and the APHAB, generated within HAF of 156 subjects were analyzed. After exclusion of a normal distribution of the data, Spearman's correlation and Cohen's effect size were determined.

results73 (46.8 %) of the 156 subjects were females, and 83 (53.2 %) males. No significant correlation could be found between the EC-, the RV-, and the cumulative ECBNRV-subscale and the benefit of HAF in the FBE and FBE-S (EC: ease of communication, BN: background noise, RV: reverberation). Most of the remaining coefficients of correlation had a weak positive effect size. A middle positive effect size could only be demonstrated for 6 combinations, for the EC-subscale mostly.

conclusionThe not strong effect sizes could assume that the results in speech-audiometry and the APHAB are not independent and complementing each other as parameters of hearing loss and benefit in HAF. The effect size could be explained by individually different possibilities for the compensation of hearing loss.

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Hearing AidsHearing LossSpeech PerceptionAudiometry, SpeechFemaleHumansMaleNoiseSurveys and Questionnaires

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PMID34157776
PMCPMC8942719

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