BACKGROUND Proximal intercessory prayer (PIP) is a common complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapy, but clinical effects are poorly understood, partly because studies have focused on distant intercessory prayer (DIP). METHODS This prospective study used an audiometer (Earscan(R) 3) and vision charts (40 cm, 6 m "Illiterate E") to evaluate 24 consecutive Mozambican subjects (19 mal...

The use of headphone has been thought to cause infection in the ear canal and contribute to hearing loss. In this study, we examined 136 Customer Service Representative from Celcom (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. who use headphone throughout their working hours. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of ear canal infection and other related diseases of the ear, nose and throat. Their he...

The aided threshold (and functional gain) has been used as a behavioral verification tool since the early 1960s to document the improvement in hearing sensitivity with hearing aid use. Clinicians judge the adequacy of amplification by examining if the aided threshold reaches a prescribed target value. The functional gain provided by the hearing aids, or the difference in audiometer dial reading...

Twenty three normal-hearing candidates for the Submarine Force were examined for Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) by speech audiometry using phonetically-balanced (PB) lists of monosyllables instead of the usual spondee words. Such PB words are felt to be considerably better in assessing the important frequency regions for daily speech communication, namely, 500-2000 cycles per second. The Navy...

Introduction: Hearing is the usual way to acquire language, which allows us development of thought and knowledge; hearing loss can affect ability learn communicate in children cause alterations their behavior academic performance. Objective: To determine relationship between level performance primary school students from a public educational institution Lima. Methods: Observational, correlation...

Previous investigations have established the reliability of high-frequency thresholds performed in a sound suite using headphones. In addition, test-retest reliability of high-frequency thresholds in adults with normal hearing in a hospital room versus a sound-treated booth has also been established. The current study evaluated the test-retest reliability of thresholds in the 8000- to 18000-Hz ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the natural tendencies of hits and calculate the cutoff for a test group of central auditory processes (CAP): binaural fusion, filtered words, dichotic digits, frequency patterns and duration patterns and ambient sounds in normal 5-, 7-, 9- and 11-year-old children. MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied 369 children (738 ears) who attend public schools in Puebla City, administ...

Tinnitus aurium in the outpatients (544 cases) above the fifth decade age-group were selected and their hearing was tested by the audiometer. Conclusions were as follows : 1) The rate of occurrence of tinnitus aurium in the aged showed considerable variation according to the difference of the objects and observing methods, and it was lower than that of subjective deafness in the aged. The occur...