Given the ease with which it is administered and its good screening properties, the HSAQ can be useful in deciding whether adult clients should be referred to audiological evaluation due to reasonable suspicion of hypoacusis.
There is no arguing about the importance of voice, especially in groups of vocal professional voices. The question is what characterizes, the most, normal or pathological voice in relation to aspects of human working life. Harmonics to noise ratio, according to findings from the field of voice disorders, is the most representative method to differ normal from pathological voice. In this research significant differences were found in harmonics to noise ratio in relation to the length of the working age of 29 teachers of primary schools in Zagreb. Teachers with the longest working age (40-yr.) showed the most distorted voices. The best quality of voice with great ratio of harmonics to noise was found in the group of teachers with 10 years of professional work. Acoustical analyses were made by ezvoiceplusTM version 2.0 and Gram. 2.3. Significant statistical differences were established by the T test of Statistica for Windows, version 4.5. [Work supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of Republic of Croatia.]
Cilj ovog rada je provedba preliminarne analize pouzdanosti i valjanosti Profila ishoda rehabilitacije slušanja (PIRS) – upitnika samoprocjene namijenjenog kvantifikaciji funkcionalnih teškoća slušanja s obzirom na zvučno okruženje i obilježja sugovornika (1., 3. i 5. dio), učestalost pojave različitih kompenzacijskih komunikacijskih strategija i izraženost socio-emocionalnih posljedica SOS-a (4. dio), stupanj utjecaja SOS-a na svakodnevne aktivnosti (2. dio) te kvalitetu slušne izvedbe i zadovoljstvo dodijeljenim slušnim pomagalom (5. dio). Analiza navedenih metrijskih obilježja svakog pojedinog dijela PIRS-a provedena je na uzorku od 47 odraslih sudionika (37 korisnika slušnog pomagala i 10 čujućih osoba), a uključila je analizu Cronbachovih koeficijenata pouzdanosti i međuklasnih korelacijskih koeficijenata, provedbu faktorske analize, primjenu Mann-Whitney U Testa u ispitivanju razlika u samoprocjeni između čujućih i sudionika s oštećenjem sluha te korelacijsku analizu stupnjeva oštećenja sluha i rezultata samoprocjene. Rezultati navedenihpostupaka pokazali su da svi dijelovi PIRS-a posjeduju pouzdanost i valjanost čiji potencijal opravdava daljnje ispitivanje njihovih metrijskih svojstava s ciljem provjere kliničke primjene PIRS-a kao mjere ishoda rehabilitacije SOS-a.
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