Bratt Gene W, Rosenfeld Mia A L, Williams David W
VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37212, USA.
J Am Acad Audiol. 2007 Apr;18(4):274-81. doi: 10.3766/jaaa.18.4.2.
This report provides background regarding the Long Term Follow-Up of Patients in the NIDCD/VA Hearing Aid Clinical Trial study and serves as an introduction to the detailed reports that follow in this issue of Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. The authors investigated five- to seven-year benefit/satisfaction in participants from the original NIDCDNA Hearing Aid Clinical Trial. The new study was designed to investigate current use of the original study hearing aids, to compare changes in selected audiological measures, and to assess possible predictors of long-term hearing aid use. The outcome measures included estimates of speech intelligibility in quiet and noise, self-reported patterns of hearing aid usage, self-reported estimates of activity limitations and quality-of-life issues, estimates of hearing aid satisfaction, and self-reported hearing aid benefit. Overall, the short-term benefits of hearing aid use observed during the original trial were noted to persist in the long term.
本报告提供了有关美国国立耳聋与其他交流障碍研究所/退伍军人事务部助听器临床试验患者长期随访的背景信息，并作为本期《美国听力学学会杂志》后续详细报告的引言。作者调查了最初的美国国立耳聋与其他交流障碍研究所助听器临床试验参与者五至七年的受益情况/满意度。这项新研究旨在调查原研究中助听器的当前使用情况，比较所选听力学指标的变化，并评估长期使用助听器的可能预测因素。结果指标包括安静和嘈杂环境下言语清晰度的估计值、自我报告的助听器使用模式、自我报告的活动受限估计值和生活质量问题、助听器满意度估计值以及自我报告的助听器受益情况。总体而言，在最初试验中观察到的助听器使用短期益处被认为在长期内持续存在。
