ĐÁNH GIÁ HIỆU QUẢ CỦA MÁY TRỢ THÍNH TRÊN BỆNH NHÂN NGHE KÉM TUỔI GIÀ BẰNG BẢNG CÂU THỬ THÍNH LỰC LỜI TIẾNG VIỆT

Abstract

Background: The increase of number of geriatric population, as well as their age-related problems, is of great concern for society all over the world, including presbyacusis constitute a large percentage of their problems. In treatment, hearing- aid useage is necessary for elder with presbyacusis. Speech audiometry help ENT- specialist choose hearing aid for older patient improving communicative performance. Objectives: Comparing the indicators of the speech reception threshold before and after using hearing aid. Methods: Cross-section description of all presbyacusis, aged 60 and above, who attended pure tone audiometry and speech audiometry at ENT department from September 2022 to September 2023. Results: Total patients studied were 50. The male to female ratio was 3.7 to 1. The age 60-69 year group was 4%, 70-79 year group was 42%, 80 year and above group was 54%. Moderate hearing loss degree (degree 2) was 24%, severe hearing loss degree (degree 3) was 64% and deafness (degree 4) was 12%. Speech reception threshold average decreased from 77.7% to 61.6% after using hearing aid. Mean speech discrimination score average improved from 75.6% to 96.6% with hearing aid. Mean speech non- discrimination score average decreased from 24.4% to 3.4% after using hearing aid. (p<0.05) Conclusions: hearing- aid useage improve presbyacusis patient’s communicative performance. Speech audiometry by sentence tests in Vietnamese is important for hearing aid prescription and hearing aid correction.