Assessment of Hearing Aid Outcome Using CADL

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  • Nagayasu Rie
    Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Science
  • Maeda Yukihide
    Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Science
  • Sugaya Akiko
    Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Science
  • Kataoka Yuko
    Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Science
  • Fukushima Kunihiro
    Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Science
  • Nishizaki Kazunori
    Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Science

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  • 実用コミュニケーション能力検査 (CADL) 簡易版を用いた補聴器装用効果の検討
  • ジツヨウ コミュニケーション ノウリョク ケンサ(CADL)カンイバン オ モチイタ ホチョウキ ソウヨウ コウカ ノ ケントウ

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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.<br> 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. CADL may be used for measuring communicative outcomes in patients using hearing aids.

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  • Nippon Jibiinkoka Gakkai Kaiho

    Nippon Jibiinkoka Gakkai Kaiho 117 (8), 1126-1131, 2014

    Japanese Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and neck surgery

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