The Impact of Hearing Aids on Listening Effort and Listening-Related Fatigue - Investigations in a Virtual Realistic Listening Environment.

Autor:	Blümer M; Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany., Heeren J; Hörzentrum Oldenburg gGmbH, Oldenburg, Germany.; Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Oldenburg, Germany., Mirkovic B; Department of Psychology, University of Oldenburg School VI-Medicine and Health Sciences, Oldenburg, Germany., Latzel M; Sonova Holding AG, Stäfa, Switzerland., Gordon C; Sonova New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand., Crowhen D; Sonova New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand., Meis M; Hörzentrum Oldenburg gGmbH, Oldenburg, Germany.; Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Oldenburg, Germany., Wagener K; Hörzentrum Oldenburg gGmbH, Oldenburg, Germany.; Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Oldenburg, Germany., Schulte M; Hörzentrum Oldenburg gGmbH, Oldenburg, Germany.; Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Oldenburg, Germany.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Trends in hearing [Trends Hear] 2024 Jan-Dec; Vol. 28, pp. 23312165241265199.
DOI:	10.1177/23312165241265199
Abstrakt:	Participation in complex listening situations such as group conversations in noisy environments sets high demands on the auditory system and on cognitive processing. Reports of hearing-impaired people indicate that strenuous listening situations occurring throughout the day lead to feelings of fatigue at the end of the day. The aim of the present study was to develop a suitable test sequence to evoke and measure listening effort (LE) and listening-related fatigue (LRF), and, to evaluate the influence of hearing aid use on both dimensions in mild to moderately hearing-impaired participants. The chosen approach aims to reconstruct a representative acoustic day (Time Compressed Acoustic Day [TCAD]) by means of an eight-part hearing-test sequence with a total duration of approximately 2½ h. For this purpose, the hearing test sequence combined four different listening tasks with five different acoustic scenarios and was presented to the 20 test subjects using virtual acoustics in an open field measurement in aided and unaided conditions. Besides subjective ratings of LE and LRF, behavioral measures (response accuracy, reaction times), and an attention test (d2-R) were performed prior to and after the TCAD. Furthermore, stress hormones were evaluated by taking salivary samples. Subjective ratings of LRF increased throughout the test sequence. This effect was observed to be higher when testing unaided. In three of the eight listening tests, the aided condition led to significantly faster reaction times/response accuracies than in the unaided condition. In the d2-R test, an interaction in processing speed between time (pre- vs. post-TCAD) and provision (unaided vs. aided) was found suggesting an influence of hearing aid provision on LRF. A comparison of the averaged subjective ratings at the beginning and end of the TCAD shows a significant increase in LRF for both conditions. At the end of the TCAD, subjective fatigue was significantly lower when wearing hearing aids. The analysis of stress hormones did not reveal significant effects. Competing Interests: Authors' NoteMarkus Meis changed employment from Hörzentrum Oldenburg gGmbH to Cochlear Deutschland GmbH & CO KG. Bojana Mirkovic changed employment from Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg to AUTO1 Group. Declaration of Conflicting InterestsMathias Latzel works for Sonova Holding AG. Charlotte Gordon and David Crowhen work for Sonova New Zealand.
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