title: [Assessment of hearing aid outcome using CADL].
abstract: The presence of hearing impairment deteriorates patients' quality of life by affecting their daily-life communication. Several self-report assessments are available to evaluate the subjective outcome of hearing aids, however, the procedures to evaluate the impairment of communication induced by hearing impairment has not been well established. A PC-recorded audio file prepared to evaluate the communication ability of hearing aid users, by extracting fifteen spoken language items from the Communication ADL Test: sp-CADL. A before and after study was performed among the hearing aid users who were attending Okayama University Hospital to evaluate the improvement in each of the 15 sp-CADL scores. Twenty-one adults were included in this study whose age ranged from 22 to 83 years old (mean: 56.7 years old). The total and individual scores of the sp-CADL improved significantly after the use of the hearing aids (p < 0.05). The total sp-CADL score of the patients with hearing aids showed a good correlation with the best scores of the speech discrimination test measured before wearing hearing aids.
authors.forename: Rie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nagayasu
authors.forename: Yukihide
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sugaya
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kataoka
authors.forename: Kunihiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukushima
authors.forename: Kazunori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nishizaki
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006310:Hearing Aids; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged