TABLE 5.
Condition | Variable | CNC ≥ 50% | CNC <50% | p-value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Earphone (mean ±SD) |
EAD | 35.76±19.52 | 9.62±16.70 | <0.00* |
PTA | 71.08±14.40 | 74.10±12.34 | 0.19 | |
SRT | 66.35±15.44 | 65.44±15.03 | 0.74 | |
CNC | 63.38±11.43 | 25.23±11.11 | <0.00* | |
CNC dB | 92.98±13.00 | 93.39±9.02 | 0.78 | |
Aided (mean ±SD) |
PTA | 35.63±7.05 | 38.48±10.95 | 0.05* |
SRT | 36.11±6.67 | 37.65±10.25 | 0.26 | |
CNC | 27.62±17.68 | 15.61±14.56 | <0.00* | |
AzBio | 41.04±24.07 | 21.76±18.79 | <0.00* | |
AzBio +10 | 29.61±23.57 | 20.08±19.11 | 0.06 |
EAD indicates “earphone to aided difference”; PTA, pure-tone average; SRT, speech recognition threshold; CNC, consonant-nucleus-consonant word recognition; CNC dB, presentation level for CNC word recognition; AzBio, sentence recognition in quiet; AzBio +10, sentence recognition in noise.