Emotional prosody perception in presbycusis patients after auditory rehabilitation
| Autor: | M. Robier, Jean-Marie Aoustin, C. Aussedat, David Bakhos, E. Legris, J. Henriques |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Hearing loss media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment Emotions Presbycusis Audiology Emotional competence 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Hearing Aids Hearing Perception otorhinolaryngologic diseases Medicine Humans 030223 otorhinolaryngology Prosody media_common Rehabilitation business.industry medicine.disease Social relation Otorhinolaryngology Emotional prosody 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Speech Perception Surgery medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | European annals of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck diseases. 138(3) |
| ISSN: | 1879-730X |
| Popis: | Perception of emotion plays a major role in social interaction. Studies have shown that hearing loss and aging degrade emotional recognition. The main aim of the present study was to evaluate the benefit of first-time hearing aids (HA) for emotional prosody perception in presbycusis patients. Secondary objectives comprised comparison with normal-hearing subjects, and assessment of the impact of demographic and audiologic factors.To assess HA impact, 29 subjects with presbycusis were included. They were tested without HA and 1 month after starting to use HA. A test with emotional hearing stimuli (Montreal Affective Voice test: MAV) was performed at various intensities (50, 65 and 80dB SPL). Patients' experience was evaluated on the Profile of Emotional Competence questionnaire, before and after HA fitting. Results were compared with those of 29 normal-hearing subjects.Auditory rehabilitation did not significantly improve MAV results (P0.005), or subjective questionnaire results (P0.005). Scores remained lower than those of normal-hearing subjects (P0.001). MAV results, before and after HA, showed significant correlation with pure-tone average (r=-0.88, P0.001) and age (r=0.44, P=0.018). The older the presbycusis patient and the more severe the hearing loss, the greater the difficulty in recognising emotional prosody.Despite hearing rehabilitation, presbycusis patients' results remained poorer than in normal-hearing subjects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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