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      Limitação de atividades em idosos: estudo em novos usuários de próteses auditivas por meio do questionário APHAB Translated title: Activity limitations in the elderly: a study of new hearing aid users using the APHAB questionnaire

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          OBJETIVO: Avaliar limitações auditivas de idosos com perda auditiva sensorioneural de grau moderado a severo segundo variáveis escolaridade e grau da perda auditiva, por meio do questionário de auto-avaliação Abbreviate Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB). MÉTODOS: Foi aplicado o questionário em 30 idosos antes e após três meses de uso da amplificação. A amostra foi composta por 60% mulheres e 40% homens, com média de idade de 71,6 anos. O grau de escolaridade foi distribuído em três categorias: não-alfabetizado, ensino fundamental e ensino médio. Os dados foram analisados estatisticamente. Os escores foram comparados por sub-escala, e a avaliação geral pela subtração desses escores. Além disso, foi calculada a associação entre benefício e grau de escolaridade e grau de perda auditiva. RESULTADOS: O estudo comparativo entre os escores obtidos na aplicação do questionário sem e com prótese auditiva revelou diferença nas sub-escalas Facilidade de Comunicação, Reverberação e Ruído Ambiental, com valores de p<0,001. Na sub-escala Aversão aos Sons ocorreu piora com a amplificação. Houve melhora no desempenho com prótese auditiva na avaliação geral nas três sub-escalas. Não houve associação entre o benefício obtido com a prótese auditiva, grau de escolaridade e grau de perda auditiva. CONCLUSÃO: Há benefício nas sub-escalas: Facilidade de Comunicação, Reverberação e Ruído Ambiental. Não há associação entre benefício, escolaridade e grau da perda auditiva. O benefício obtido na sub-escala Ruído Ambiental é menor que nas sub-escalas Facilidade de Comunicação e Reverberação.

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          PURPOSE: To evaluate hearing limitations among elderly individuals with moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss according to the variables educational level and degree of hearing loss, using the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit self-assessment questionnaire. METHODS: The questionnaire was applied to 30 elderly subjects before and after three months of use of amplification. The sample was composed of 60% females and 40% males, with mean age of 71.6 years. Educational level was divided into three categories: illiterate, elementary school, and high school education. Data were analyzed statistically. Scores were compared by subscale and an overall assessment was conducted by subtracting these scores. Moreover, it was calculated the association between benefit and educational level and degree of hearing loss. RESULTS: The comparative study between scores obtained in the questionnaire with and without hearing aid revealed difference in the subscales Ease of Communication, Reverberation and Background Noise, with values p<0.001. In the Aversion to Sounds subscale, it was observed a decline with amplification. Performance improved with the hearing aid in the overall evaluation for all three subscales. There was no association between benefits obtained with the hearing aid, educational level, and degree of hearing loss. CONCLUSION: Benefits were reported in the subscales: Ease of Communication, Reverberation, and Background Noise. No association was found between benefits, educational level and degree of hearing loss. The benefit obtained in the Background Noise subscale is smaller than that observed in Reverberation and Ease of Communication.

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          The abbreviated profile of hearing aid benefit.

          To develop and evaluate a shortened version of the Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit, to be called the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit, or APHAB. The Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (PHAB) is a 66-item self-assessment, disability-based inventory that can be used to document the outcome of a hearing aid fitting, to compare several fittings, or to evaluate the same fitting over time. Data from 128 completed PHABs were used to select items for the Abbreviated PHAB. All subjects were elderly hearing-impaired who wore conventional analog hearing aids. Statistics of score distributions and psychometric properties of each of the APHAB subscales were determined. Data from 27 similar subjects were used to examine the test-retest properties of the instrument. Finally, equal-percentile profiles were generated for unaided, aided and benefit scores obtained from successful wearers of linear hearing aids. The APHAB uses a subset of 24 of the 66 items from the PHAB, scored in four 6-item subscales. Three of the subscales, Ease of Communication, Reverberation, and Background Noise address speech understanding in various everyday environments. The fourth subscale, Aversiveness of Sounds, quantifies negative reactions to environmental sounds. The APHAB typically requires 10 minutes or less to complete, and it produces scores for unaided and aided performance as well as hearing aid benefit. Test-retest correlation coefficients were found to be moderate to high and similar to those reported in the literature for other scales of similar content and length. Critical differences for each subscale taken individually were judged to be fairly large, however, smaller differences between two tests from the same individual can be significant if the three speech communication subscales are considered jointly. The APHAB is a potentially valuable clinical instrument. It can be useful for quantifying the disability associated with a hearing loss and the reduction of disability that is achieved with a hearing aid.
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              Optimal outcome measures, research priorities, and international cooperation.

              The participants in the Eriksholm Workshop on "Measuring Outcomes in Audiological Rehabilitation Using Hearing Aids" debated three issues that are reported in this article. First, it was agreed that the characteristics of an optimal outcome measure vary as a function of the purpose of the measurement. Potential characteristics of outcome self-report tools for four common goals of outcome measurement are briefly presented to illustrate this point. Second, 10 important research priorities in outcome measurement were identified and ranked. They are presented with brief discussion of the top five. Third, the concept of generating a brief universally applicable outcome measure was endorsed. This brief data set is intended to supplement existing outcome measures and to promote data combination and comparison across different social, cultural, and health-care delivery systems. A set of seven core items is proposed for further study.
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                Journal
                rsbf
                Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia
                Rev. soc. bras. fonoaudiol.
                Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                1516-8034
                1982-0232
                March 2012
                : 17
                : 1
                : 47-53
                Affiliations
                [01] Maceió AL orgnameUniversidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas Brasil
                [02] São Paulo SP orgnameUniversidade Federal de São Paulo orgdiv1Departamento de Fonoaudiologia Brasil
                Article
                S1516-80342012000100010 S1516-8034(12)01700110
                10.1590/S1516-80342012000100010
                712b8bf4-bca3-486e-a66f-c5f7a8afd15d

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 28 October 2010
                : 13 June 2011
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                Perda auditiva,Questionnaires,Presbycusis,Hearing aids,Elderly health,Hearing loss,Questionários,Presbiacusia,Auxiliares de audição,Saúde do idoso

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