title: Relation between aided synthetic sentence identification scores and hearing aid user satisfaction.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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