TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Zirn, Stefan
T1  - Development of a home-based auditory training to improve speech recognition on the telephone for patients with cochlear implants: A randomised trial
JF  - Clinical Otolaryngology
N2  - Objectives: Speech recognition on the telephone poses a challenge for patients with cochlear implants (CIs) due to a reduced bandwidth of transmission. This trial evaluates a home-based auditory training with telephone-specific filtered speech material to improve sentence recognition. Design: Randomised controlled parallel double-blind. Setting: One tertiary referral centre. Participants: A total of 20 postlingually deafened patients with CIs. Main outcome measures: Primary outcome measure was sentence recognition assessed by a modified version of the Oldenburg Sentence Test filtered to the telephone bandwidth of 0.3-3.4 kHz. Additionally, pure tone thresholds, recognition of monosyllables and subjective hearing benefit were acquired at two separate visits before and after a home-based training period of 10-14 weeks. For training, patients received a CD with speech material, either unmodified for the unfiltered training group or filtered to the telephone bandwidth in the filtered group. Results: Patients in the unfiltered training group achieved an average sentence recognition score of 70.0%±13.6% (mean±SD) before and 73.6%±16.5% after training. Patients in the filtered training group achieved 70.7%±13.8% and 78.9%±7.0%, a statistically significant difference (P=.034, t10 =2.292; two-way RM ANOVA/Bonferroni). An increase in the recognition of monosyllabic words was noted in both groups. The subjective benefit was positive for filtered and negative for unfiltered training. Conclusions: Auditory training with specifically filtered speech material provided an improvement in sentence recognition on the telephone compared to training with unfiltered material.
KW  - audiometry
KW  - auditory training
KW  - cochlear implants
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coa.12871/abstract;jsessionid=7E86A08FA5B55185146129D260AFB34A.f04t04
SN  - 1749-4486
SS  - 1749-4486
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/coa.12871
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1111/coa.12871
VL  - 42
IS  - 6
SP  - 1303
EP  - 1310
ER  -