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To evaluate hearing attention and quality of listening in children with moderate to severe unilateral hearing loss, comparing hearing aid users to unaided peers.

April 1, 2022Acta Otorhinolaryngologica ItalicaOpen Access

Hearing attention and quality of listening in children with unilateral hearing loss with and without hearing aid

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FRFrancesca RussoPoliclinico Umberto I DSDaniele De SetaSapienza University of Rome MOMaria Patrizia OrlandoInstitute of Acoustics and Sensors "Orso Mario Corbino"

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Cohort study reveals improved auditory attention and listening quality in children with unilateral hearing loss using hearing aids, highlighting benefits of early rehabilitation.

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To evaluate hearing attention and quality of listening in children with moderate to severe unilateral hearing loss, comparing hearing aid users to unaided peers.
Assessed a cohort of 24 children with moderate to severe unilateral hearing loss (12 hearing aid users and 12 without hearing rehabilitation).
Conducted audiological testing with speech audiometry in quiet and noise, hearing attention tests (selective and shifting), and the parent-proxy Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale.
Children in the hearing aid group demonstrated fewer errors during selective hearing attention and attention-shifting assessments compared to unaided children.
Parent-reported quality of listening scores were significantly higher for hearing aid users (mean 152.8 ± 2.7) than for unaided children (mean 116.1 ± 2.6; p > 0.001).

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Russo et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a71542235aa2c282ce2a1f8 https://doi.org/10.14639/0392-100x-n1746

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Cohort study reveals improved auditory attention and listening quality in children with unilateral hearing loss using hearing aids, highlighting benefits of early rehabilitation.

Hearing attention and quality of listening in children with unilateral hearing loss with and without hearing aid

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Hearing attention and quality of listening in children with unilateral hearing loss with and without hearing aid

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