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Title : Assessment of Listening Effort in Adults with Cochlear Implantation
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Abstract
Introduction: Postlingual adults with cochlear implantation showed promising speech recognition scores in quite. However, they reported difficulty in understanding speech in the presence of background noise. Those patients also reported effort and fatigue associated with listening in these conditions.
Objective: To assess listening effort and listening-related fatigue among postlingual adults with cochlear implantation.
Subjects and methods: The present study concluded forty-four adults ranging from 18 to 50 years old. The study group consisted of 22 postlingual adults with unilateral CI and the control group consisted of 22 normal-hearing adults. Age and gender were matched. Listening effort was assessed using dual task paradigm and effort assessment scale (EAS) and listening-related fatigue was assessed using fatigue assessment scale (FAS). Working memory capacity and span was assessed using digit span test.
Results: Significant differences were found in dual task paradigm results and scores of EAS and FAS. CI candidates had lower speech recognition scores, longer reaction time the stroop test, and higher scores in EAS and FAS than normal listeners.
Conclusion: Cochlear implant users expend more listening effort and experience more listening-related fatigue than normal-hearing individuals, and this effort and fatigue are worse when listening in an unfavorable surrounding environment.