Effects of Hearing Aid Use on Individuals Diagnosed with Hearing Loss and Dementia: A Systematic Review.

Background: The assumption that hearing rehabilitation could improve quality of life and reduce dementia risk in people with hearing loss is a subject that needs further studies, especially clinical trials. It is necessary to determine the effects of hearing aid use, as part of hearing rehabilitation, among people diagnosed with dementia.

Objective: To systematically review the literature to evaluate the effects of hearing aid use on cognition and quality of life of people with dementia.

Psychometric Validation of a Hearing Screening Questionnaire for Preschoolers Based on Language Development Evaluation by Caregivers.

Introduction: This study aimed to validate three age-adjusted versions of a Hearing Screening Questionnaire for Preschoolers, in Brazilian Portuguese, based on parents' perception of their children's hearing and oral language.

Methods: Psychometric validation was conducted on three questionnaires, each comprising nine items with yes/no responses. Three items focused on hearing screening at birth, and six assessed hearing and oral language.

Prevalence of hearing loss and health vulnerability in children aged 25 to 36 months: an analysis of spatial distribution.

Purpose: To analyze the association between hearing loss and health vulnerability in children aged 25 to 36 months.

Methods: Analytical observational cross-sectional study conducted through child hearing screening in nine day-care centers. The screening consisted of anamnesis, otoscopy, tympanometry, transient otoacoustic emissions, and pure tone audiometry.

Comparison of Speech Recognition in Cochlear Implant Users with Different Speech Processors.

Background: Speech recognition in noisy environments is a challenge for both cochlear implant (CI) users and device manufacturers. CI manufacturers have been investing in technological innovations for processors and researching strategies to improve signal processing and signal design for better aesthetic acceptance and everyday use.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare speech recognition in CI users using off-the-ear (OTE) and behind-the-ear (BTE) processors.

Vestibular-evoked myogenic potential triggered by galvanic vestibular stimulation may reveal subclinical alterations in human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1-associated myelopathy.

Background: Vestibular-evoked myogenic potential triggered by galvanic vestibular stimulation (galvanic-VEMP) evaluates the motor spinal cord and identifies subclinical myelopathies. We used galvanic-VEMP to compare spinal cord function in individuals infected with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) from asymptomatic status to HTLV-1-associated myelopathy (HAM).

Methodology/principal Findings: This cross-sectional study with 122 individuals included 26 HTLV-1-asymptomatic carriers, 26 individuals with possible HAM, 25 individuals with HAM, and 45 HTLV-1-seronegative individuals (controls).

Study of brainstem auditory evoked potentials in early diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis.

Introduction: Congenital toxoplasmosis is an infectious disease with high prevalence in tropical countries. It is characterized by neurological, ophthalmological and auditory sequelae.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate and describe the brainstem auditory evoked potential in infants aged 1-3 months diagnosed with congenital toxoplasmosis and to compare them with infants of the same age group without the infection.

Transient Abnormalities in Masking Tuning Curve in Early Progressive Hearing Loss Mouse Model.

Damage to cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) usually affects frequency selectivity in proportion to hearing threshold increase. However, the current clinical heuristics that attributes poor hearing performance despite near-normal auditory sensitivity to auditory neuropathy or "hidden" synaptopathy overlooks possible underlying OHC impairment. Here, we document the part played by OHCs in influencing suprathreshold auditory performance in the presence of noise in a mouse model of progressive hair cell degeneration, the CD1 strain, at postnatal day 18-30 stages when high-frequency auditory thresholds remained near-normal.

Work process, performance and professional profile of a Hearing Health Network: reference for satisfaction.

Purpose: To analyze the correlation between the satisfaction of professionals from the Hearing Health Care network in two micro-regions of Minas Gerais state and the sociodemographic profile, work process, and work performance in the health service.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional, observational, analytic study with a non-probabilistic sample including 34 professionals from the Hearing Health Care services. Data collection occurred through individual interviews in the municipality of professional practice.

Auditory steady-state responses in school-aged children: a pilot study.

Background: The use of Auditory Steady-State Responses (ASSRs) for auditory screening in school-aged children, particularly in children who are difficult to test and children with disabilities, has not been explored yet. This pilot study investigated the use of ASSR for auditory screening in school-aged children.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional pilot study of 23 children aged 9 to 11 with normal-hearing thresholds and seven age-matched children with permanent moderate-to-profound bilateral hearing loss were examined.

Hearing health network: a spatial analysis.

Introduction: In order to meet the demands of the patient population with hearing impairment, the Hearing Health Care Network was created, consisting of primary care actions of medium and high complexity. Spatial analysis through geoprocessing is a way to understand the organization of such services.

Objective: To analyze the organization of the Hearing Health Care Network of the State of Minas Gerais.

Increased prevalence of early cochlear damage in young patients with type 1 diabetes detected by distortion product otoacoustic emissions.

Objective: To evaluate the hearing of adolescents with diabetes mellitus type 1(DM1) by otoacoustic emissions (OAEs), and by comparing different tests with pure-tone audiometry to identify potential early cochlear impairments.

Design: Pure-tone audiometry, transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs), and distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) were performed in a group of adolescents with and without DM1. Clinical characteristics, disease duration, and glycated haemoglobin levels were studied.

Tympanometry with 226 and 1000 Hertz tone probes in infants.

Unlabelled: This study aimed at describing and analyzing tympanometric results obtained with 226 Hz and 1000 Hz probe tones; checking for correlations between tympanometry, otoacoustic emissions and otoscopic examination; describing abnormal results found in the evaluation procedures.

Methods: Double-blind and prospective study. Our sample included 70 babies, between 7 days and one month and 13 days of age, without risk indicators for hearing loss, evaluated in the State Neonatal Hearing Screening Program.