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Previous issue date: 2012-03-20 / Introduction : The hormonal changes associated with menopause are able to modulate functions that are important for the central processing of verbal information.Objective : To evaluate the relationship between complaints of speech understanding and central auditory processing and cognitive function inpostmenopausal women.Methodology : The study included 92 postmenopausal women (45-60 years), which were classified into two groups according to presence or absence of complaints of difficulty understanding speech. All were right-handed, had normal hearing or mild sensorineural hearing loss and underwent bilateral hearing evaluation (otoscopy, impedance and ipsilateral and contralateral acoustic reflex, audiometry and speech audiometry), central auditory processing tests (dichotic consonant-vowel, Sequence Pattern frequency and Duration) and cognitive tests (Trail A and B, BDI, Procedure Brow Peterson, Stroop, divided and sustained attention).Results : 63% of women complained of speech understanding. The experimental groups showed no significant differences in demographic variables, hearing assessment or evidence of central auditory processing. However, women with complaints of speech understanding had poorer performance on tasks Trail B, Brown Peterson (interference motor), sustained attention (concentration) and Stroop(color-word), and higher scores on the BDI.Conclusions : Most women in post-menopausal women complain of speech understanding, which are associated with changes in cognitive domains potentially involved in central auditory processing, as processing speed, attention and working memory. / Introdu??o : As altera??es hormonais relacionadas ? menopausa s?o capazes de modular fun??es que s?o importantes para o processamento central de informa??es verbais.Objetivo : Avaliar a rela??o entre queixas de compreens?o de fala e o processamento auditivo central e fun??es cognitivas em mulheres p?s-menop?usicas.Metodologia : Participaram deste estudo 92 mulheres p?s-menop?usicas (45 a 60 anos), as quais foram classificadas em dois grupos de acordo com a presen?a ou aus?ncia de queixa de dificuldade de compreens?o da fala. Todas eram destras, tinham limiares auditivos normais ou leve perda neurossensorial e foram submetidas a avalia??o auditiva bilateral (meatoscopia, imitanciometria, audiometria tonal e logoaudiometria), testes de processamento auditivo central (Dic?ticos Consoante Vogal, Sequ?ncia de Padr?o de Frequ?ncia e de Dura??o) e testes cognitivos (Trail partes A e B, BDI, Procedimento de Brow Peterson, Stroop, Aten??o dividida e sustentada).Resultados : 63% das mulheres apresentaram queixa de compreens?o de fala. Os grupos experimentais n?o mostraram diferen?as significativas em rela??o ?s vari?veis demogr?ficas, avalia??o auditiva ou provas de processamento auditivo central. Entretanto, mulheres com queixa de compreens?o de fala apresentaram pior desempenho nas tarefas Trail B, Brow Peterson (interfer?ncia motora), Aten??o sustentada (concentra??o) e no Stroop (cor palavra), al?m de escores mais elevados no BDI.Conclus?es : Grande parte das mulheres na fase de p?s-menopausa apresenta queixas de compreens?o de fala, as quais est?o associadas a altera??es em dom?nios cognitivos potencialmente envolvidos no processamento auditivo central, como velocidade de processamento, aten??o e mem?ria operacional.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:tede2.pucrs.br:tede/2677 |
| Date | 20 March 2012 |
| Creators | Schlickmann, ?ngela Flores |
| Contributors | Bromberg, Elke |
| Publisher | Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Gerontologia Biom?dica, PUCRS, BR, Instituto de Geriatria e Gerontologia |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS, instname:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, instacron:PUC_RS |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 4438661476953179033, 500, 600, 2296420844541114010 |
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