Relation between aided synthetic sentence identification scores and hearing aid user satisfaction.
Satisfaction with hearing aid use was surveyed in 78 subjects who had been evaluated for hearing aid use by formal speech audiometric measures (synthetic sentence identification). At -10 dB message-to-competition ratio, synthetic sentence identification performance was an average 30% better in satisfied than in dissatisfied users.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003143:Communication Devices for People with Disabilities; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D012048:Correction of Hearing Impairment; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013067:Speech Perception