碩士 / 國立高雄師範大學 / 溝通障礙教育研究所 / 93 / The purposes of the study were to investigate 1) the effect of tinnitus upon normal hearing people’s speech recognition performance, 2) relationships among patients’ self-rating tinnitus loudness, Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) score, and speech recognition test scores, and 3) test-retest reliability of Chinese THI. Two groups of normal hearing subjects were included in the study, 20 with tinnitus and 20 without. Phonetically balanced speech recognition (PB) test was administered in the quiet. SPIN was tested in +6dB S/N (56 dB speech vs. 50dB noise) and 0dB S/N (50 dB speech vs. 50dB noise). Self-rating tinnitus loudness scale and THI were performed on subjects of tinnitus group. Results were as follows. 1) No significant difference was observed between subjects with and without tinnitus in PB scores (in quiet), HP scores and LP scores of SPIN test for +6dB S/N (p>.05). However, significant differences were found between these two groups in HP scores and LP scores of SPIN test for 0dB S/N (p<.05). Normal group revealed no significant difference between +6dB S/N and 0dB S/N for HP scores. So did LP scores (p>.05). Tinnitus group showed significant differences between +6dB S/N and 0dB S/N, both for HP scores and LP scores (p<.05). 2) No significant relationship was observed among patients’ self-rating tinnitus loudness, THI scores, and speech recognition tests (p>.05). 3) High test-retest reliability of Chinese THI scores was shown from this research (p<.05). It reveals that tinnitus subjects could not use context cues in poor listening environment (0 dB S/N) and they perform quite well and do not need contextual cues if the speech is 6 dB above the noise level. In order to improve tinnitus people’s communication, strategy and support from the communication partners’ are strongly recommended.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/093NKNU0748002 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Heng-Huei Lee, 李恆惠 |
| Contributors | Hsiao chuan Chen, 陳小娟 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 101 |
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