title: The CON-SOT-LOT test for nonorganic hearing loss.
abstract: The efficacy of a screening procedure for detecting nonorganic hearing loss using standard audiometric instrumentation was examined. Thirty normal-hearing subjects' responses to continuous and standard and lengthened off-time pulsed tones, using an ascending-descending method, were compared. Subjects were asked to respond to test stimuli in normal-hearing and simulated hearing loss conditions. Data show that there are clinical and statistical differences between subjects' response patterns in the normal-hearing condition as compared to the feigned hearing loss condition. The procedure is offered as a simple method of screening for nonorganic hearing loss.
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Division of Audiology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: F N
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Champlin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001299:Audiometry / Q000379:methods*; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011897:Random Allocation; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012720:Severity of Illness Index