Publications by authors named "Renata Coelho Scharlach"
Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the factors related to dizziness in workers with noise-induced hearing loss in Brazil.
Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample from noise-induced hearing loss reports (2007-2019). The dependent variable in this study was dizziness, and the independent variables were sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidities, symptoms, and noise characteristics in the work environment.
Purpose: To compare the air-conduction hearing thresholds obtained with different acoustic transducers and verify the users' preferences regarding them.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional, analytical, observational study with 26 participants aged 18 to 30 years, with normal hearing and no history of exposure to high sound pressure levels or complaints of tinnitus at the time of the assessment. We surveyed their medical history and performed meatoscopy, pure-tone threshold audiometry, speech audiometry, and acoustic immittance.
Purpose: The main goal of this study was to measure the sound pressure level of digital audio players of high school students and investigate their auditory and non-auditory complaints, and their hearing habits. Another goal was to consider the concern with hearing health and the knowledge sources used by young people to gather information about the subject.
Methods: This is an observational, descriptive, quantitative, and cross-sectional study, which had the participation of high school students.
Purpose: To evaluate the family's perspective of benefits of the frequency modulation (FM) system adapted to children with sensorineural hearing loss.
Methods: This is a descriptive, analytical, cross-sectional study with the participation of family members of hearing-impaired children aged 6 to 15 years, users of hearing aids and/or cochlear implants, benefited with the FM system by a hearing health service of the Unified Health System (SUS), Brazil. The FM Listening Evaluation For Children questionnaire with 14 questions was used to evaluate the benefits of using the FM system, the characteristics of the hearing aids and/or cochlear implants, and the brand/model of the FM system the children used.
Purpose: The present study aimed to evaluate the performance of elderly people in the time-compressed speech test according to the variables ears and order of display, and analyze the types of errors presented by the volunteers.
Methods: This is an observational, descriptive, quantitative, analytical and primary cross-sectional study involving 22 elderly with normal hearing or mild sensorineural hearing loss between the ages of 60 and 80. The elderly were submitted to the time-compressed speech test with compression ratio of 60%, through the electromechanical time compression method.
Purpose: To evaluate the temporal processing of popular singers who do or do not play a musical instrument.
Methods: The study population comprised 30 popular band singers. Of them, 15 play a musical instrument (G1) and 15 do them do not play a musical instrument (G2).
Background: A good body balance requires a proper function of vestibular, visual, and somatosensory systems which can be reach with exercise practice and/or yoga.
Aim: To determine the effects of a 5-month hatha yoga training program on body balance in young adults.
Materials And Methods: This study used a controlled, nonrandomized design, where the experimental group underwent a 5-month training program and were then compared with the control group that had a sedentary lifestyle.
Unlabelled: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo is highly prevalent in the elderly population, triggering major changes in body balance.
Objective: To compare the results obtained from static posturography in the elderly before and after otoliths repositioning maneuvers and 12 months after treatment onset.
Design: longitudinal, descriptive and analytical study.
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a canalith-repositioning procedure in postural control of older patients with idiopathic benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).
Study Design: Prospective clinical trial.
Setting: A tertiary referral center.
Unlabelled: Posturography is a useful new tool to study the influence of vestibular diseases on balance.
Aim: to compare the results from the Balance Rehabilitation Unit (BRU) static posturography in elderly patients with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV), before and after Epley's maneuver.
Materials And Methods: a prospective study of 20 elderly patients with a diagnosis of BPPV.