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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Laryngoscope. 2017 Aug 4;128(4):959–966. doi: 10.1002/lary.26791

Table 2.

Means and ranges of performance on tasks of quality of life, speech recognition, other auditory outcome measures, and non-auditory language/cognitive predictor measures. NCIQ: Nijmegen Cochlear Implant Questionnaire. LSPAN: Listening Span task of auditory verbal working memory capacity

Mean N (Min-Max)
Quality of Life
 NCIQ (sum score) 417.1 25 (264-554)
  Physical - Basic sound perception 64.5 25 (30-100)
  Physical - Advanced sound perception 81.5 25 (50-100)
  Physical - Speech production 61.4 25 (28-98)
  Psychological - Self-esteem 70.7 25 (22-92)
  Social - Activity limitations 74.7 25 (28-98)
  Social - Social interactions 64.3 25 (24-85)
Speech Recognition (percent words correct)
 Words in quiet 74.3 23 (26-98)
 IEEE Sentences in quiet 77.4 24 (45.3-90.7)
 PRESTO Sentences in quiet 65.6 24 (12.1-96.9)
 High-context Sentences in noise 46.8 21 (0-97.6)
 Complex Sentences in noise 28.4 21 (1-76.8)
Other Auditory Outcome Measures
 Audiovisual sentence recognition (percent words correct) 92.3 25 (52-100)
 Environmental sound identification (percent correct) 63.8 25 (40-88)
 LSPAN (total correct letters) 27.4 17 (0-57)
Non-auditory Predictor Measures
 Digit span (total digits correct) 42.9 25 (14-79)
 Rapid reading (percent words correct) 73.3 25 (55-89)
 Inhibition-concentration (response time congruent, milliseconds) 1434.5 25 (828-2824)
 Inhibition-concentration (response time incongruent, milliseconds) 1859.6 25 (845-6397)
 Lip reading sentences (percent words correct) 10.0 25 (0-54)