Shekhawat, Giriraj Singh and Searchfield, Grant D. and Kobayashi, Kei and Stinear, Cathy M. (2013) Prescription of hearing-aid output for tinnitus relief. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY, 52 (9). pp. 617-625. ISSN 1499-2027,
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Objective: Tinnitus is a perceived sound that cannot be attributed to an external source. This study attempts to identify a prescription of amplification that is optimized as a first-fit setting for tinnitus relief. Design : Participants compared the effect of high frequency amplification on their tinnitus. Stimuli were 13 speech files with different amounts of high frequency amplification (three cut-off frequencies and four gain settings) to simulate the effects of a change in DSL(I/O) v5.0 prescription in the high frequencies. Study sample: Twenty-five participants with chronic tinnitus participated in the study. Results: A 6-dB reduction to prescribed gain at 2 kHz emerged as the most preferred output (26.47% participants) to interfere with participants' tinnitus. Overall, 70.58% of the participants' preferred a 3 to 6 dB reduction in output while 29.42% preferred a similar increase across all cut-off frequencies. A trend was observed in which the higher the tinnitus pitch the more similar the preferred output to DSL(I/O) v5.0. Conclusion: DSL(I/O) v5.0 appears to be a good starting point for prescription of hearing-aid output for tinnitus management. Long-term benefits of different prescriptions for tinnitus still need to be ascertained.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | FREQUENCY-RESPONSE; PITCH; AMPLIFICATION; THERAPY; GAIN; Tinnitus; treatment; hearing aids |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Apr 2020 12:45 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2020 12:45 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/16174 |
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