Multicenter Study on the Impact of the Masker Babble Spectrum on the Acceptable Noise Level (ANL) Test
Mark Laureyns, Giorgia Pugliese, Melinda Freyaldenhoven Bryan, Marieke Willekens, Anna Maria Gasbarre, Diego Zanetti, Julien Gilson, Paul Van Doren, Federica Di Berardino · 2024
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Description
Hearing tests that ask how much background babble a person can accept help predict who will thrive with hearing aids. Mark Laureyns and co-authors ran that test across centers and languages in 2024, with 198 patients in Dutch, French, and Italian versions. They varied the babble's spectrum, boosting or cutting its high tones against a matched standard.
Boosted high tones made the noise clearly less acceptable in every language, with worse scores than both matched and cut versions. Scores did not track age or gender, and only weak links to hearing measures appeared in two languages. The authors conclude the test behaves consistently across languages, which supports its use in clinics anywhere.
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| CREATOR | Mark Laureyns, Giorgia Pugliese, Melinda Freyaldenhoven Bryan, Marieke Willekens, Anna Maria Gasbarre, Diego Zanetti, Julien Gilson, Paul Van Doren, Federica Di Berardino |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |