Table 2 Mean values and standard deviations of the demographic, audiological, and cognitive information for the participants (n = 39).

From: Effects of age-related hearing loss and hearing aid experience on sentence processing

 

Mean values (s.d.)

Range (min–max)

Age (years)

65.5 (4.7)

54 to 73

Education (years)

16.4 (4.3)

10 to 28

PTA-high (dB)

48.5 (14.1)

26.3 to 71.9

Listening effort (score)

6.7 (1.9)

5 to 12

OLSA (dB)

76.6 (8.4)

58.6 to 100

Hearing aid experience (years; n = 19)

6.1 (4.5)

1 to 19

MoCA (score)

27.2 (2.2)

22 to 13

Digit Span, backwards (score)

7.1 (2.0)

4 to 12

CTMT (sec)

23.3 (15.8)

− 3.4 to 65.8

Vocabulary (score)

32.8 (3.4)

24 to 39

  1. Listening effort (subjective) was obtained through a questionnaire asking participants how difficult they found it to understand speech during several everyday situations and activities, such as watching TV.
  2. OLSA Oldenburg (Matrix) Sentence Test37,38,39.
  3. MoCA Montreal Cognitive Assessment task with a maximal score of 3033.
  4. CTMT  Comprehensive Trail-Making Test, difference between subtests 1 and 536.
  5. Vocabulary Wortschatztest, a German vocabulary test with a maximal score of 4040.