Screening of Cognitive Function and Hearing Impairment in Older Adults: A Preliminary Study

Table 2

Mean sentence reception thresholds (SRTs) and the standard deviations (in brackets). Paired sample 𝑡-tests were conducted to compare SRTs obtained in the aided and unaided conditions; statistically significant differences between aided and unaided SRTs were found in all test conditions (^∗𝑃<.001, 2-tailed).

Test conditions	Unaided	Aided	𝑡-statistics	Cohen’s 𝑑
Quiet (dB A)	68.9 (9.9)	59.7 (10.3)	6.0*	1.05
Noise front (NF); (dB 𝑆/𝑁)	8.9 (4.7)	6.0 (4.7)	5.6*	.77
Noise on the hearing aid side (N-HA); (dB 𝑆/𝑁)	8.3 (6.4)	6.4 (5.2)	2.9*	.36
Noise on the non-hearing aid side (N-NA) (dB 𝑆/𝑁)	8.2 (5.5)	4.6 (5.7)	4.0*	.62