Figure 5.

Outcomes profile for the left ear of a participant (25T) who crossed over from her initial treatment assignment of counseling combined with placebo sound generators to the full-treatment protocol (full-treatment period shaded in A to D). Posttreatment results (E to F) are those measured at completion of the full-treatment protocol. The legend is otherwise the same as that described in Fig. 3. Abbreviations: AI, Articulation Index; HA, hearing aid; dB HL, decibels hearing level; RAU, rationalized arcsine units; STEPS, Speech Test Evaluation and Presentation System; UCL, uncomfortable loudness; WRS, word recognition score.