The Influence of Unilateral and Bilateral Amplification on the Effect of Hearing Aid Evaluation

VernacularTitle:单、双耳佩戴助听器对助听效果的影响
Author: Yu CHEN ; Yue WANG ; Wei WANG ; Taisheng CHEN ; Peng LIN
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Hearing aid; Unilateral; Bilateral; WRS; IOI-HA patients
From: Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology 2014;(2):184-186
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To study the influence of unilateral and bilateral amplification on the effect of hearing aid evaluation .Methods Using the subjective method that International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA) and objective method that medium acoustic intensity (65 dB SPL) word recognition score(WRS) to evaluate the effect of unilateral and bilateral hearing aid fitting of middle -aged severe sensorneural hearing loss .Results Hearing aid were used for severe sensorneural hearing loss and the improvement of monosyllables and sentences in quiet and noise test of unilateral were 35 .73% ,43 .15% ,43 .23% ;the improvement of monosyllables and sentences in quiet and noise test of bilateral were 37 .90% ,51 .33% ,54 .86% .The WRS of bilateral was higher than unilater-al .The score of IOI-HA was 15~37 ,meaning patients with severe sensorneural hearing loss were satisfied with hearing aid ,and there was no statistical significance between unilateral and bilateral fitting .Conclusion The bilat-eral hearing aid fitting was better than unilateral .Binaural hearing loss are recommended to fit bilaleral hearing aids .