Reference data for a quick speech-in-noise hearing test in the French language.

Bestel, Julie; Pressnitzer, Daniel; Robier, Mathieu; Rembaud, F.; Renard, Christian; Leclercq, François; Vincent, Christophe

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Article dans une revue scientifique: Article original

DOI :

10.1159/000537768

PMID :

38498993

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/115665

Title :

Reference data for a quick speech-in-noise hearing test in the French language.

Author(s) :

Bestel, Julie [Auteur]
Pressnitzer, Daniel [Auteur]
Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs [LSP]
École normale supérieure - Paris [ENS-PSL]
Robier, Mathieu [Auteur]
Rembaud, F. [Auteur]
Renard, Christian [Auteur]
Leclercq, François [Auteur]
Vincent, Christophe [Auteur]

Advanced Drug Delivery Systems (ADDS) - U1008

Journal title :

Audiology and Neurotology

Abbreviated title :

Audiol Neurootol

Publication date :

2024-03-20

ISSN :

1421-9700

English keyword(s) :

Audiology
Speech perception
Cohort study

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

English abstract : [en]

Introduction: Difficulty in understanding speech in noise is the most common complaint of people with hearing impairment. Thus, there is a need for tests of speech-in-noise ability in clinical settings, which have to be ...
Show more >Introduction: Difficulty in understanding speech in noise is the most common complaint of people with hearing impairment. Thus, there is a need for tests of speech-in-noise ability in clinical settings, which have to be evaluated for each language. Here, a reference dataset is presented for a quick speech-in-noise test in the French language (Vocale Rapide dans le Bruit, VRB; Leclercq, Renard, & Vincent, 2018). Methods: A large cohort (N = 641) was tested in a nationwide multicentric study. The cohort comprised normal-hearing individuals and individuals with a broad range of symmetrical hearing losses. Short everyday sentences embedded in babble noise were presented over a spatial array of loudspeakers. Speech level was kept constant, while noise level was progressively increased over a range of signal-to-noise ratios. The signal-to-noise ratio for which 50% of keywords could be correctly reported (speech reception threshold, SRT) was derived from psychometric functions. Other audiometric measures were collected for the cohort, such as audiograms and speech-in-quiet performance. Results: The VRB test was both sensitive and reliable, as shown by the steep slope of the psychometric functions and by the high test-retest consistency across sentence lists. Correlation analyses showed that pure tone averages derived from the audiograms explained 74% of the SRT variance over the whole cohort, but only 29% for individuals with clinically normal audiograms. SRTs were then compared to recent guidelines from the French Society of Audiology [Eur Ann Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Dis. 2022;139(1):21–7]. Among individuals who would not have qualified for hearing aid prescription based on their audiogram or speech intelligibility in quiet, 18.4% were now eligible as they displayed SRTs in noise impaired by 3 dB or more. For individuals with borderline audiograms, between 20 dB HL and 30 dB HL, the prevalence of impaired SRTs increased to 71.4%. Finally, even though five lists are recommended for clinical use, a minute-long screening using only one VRB list detected 98.6% of impaired SRTs. Conclusion: The reference data suggest that VRB testing can be used to identify individuals with speech-in-noise impairment.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
Inserm
CHU Lille

Collections :

Advanced Drug Delivery Systems (ADDS) - U1008

Submission date :

2024-06-27T21:00:58Z
2024-07-10T07:46:37Z

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