Satisfaction and speech perception were frequent secondary outcomes .
There was diversity in measures used to report patient outcomes .
Outcome categories other than patient health status and behavior were rarely reported .
This review has highlighted considerable diversity in patient-reported outcome measurements in r and omized control trials in the context of adult auditory rehabilitation .
OBJECTIVES This review documented the range and nature of reported outcome measures in the context of adult auditory rehabilitative research .
Perceptual training improves syllable identification in new and experienced hearing aid users.
We assessed the effects of perceptual training of syllable identification in noise on nonsense syllable test ( NST ) performance of new ( Experiment 1 ) and experienced ( Experiment 2 ) hearing aid ( HA ) users with sensorineural hearing loss . In Experiment 1 , new HA users were r and omly assigned to either immediate training ( IT ) or delayed training ( DT ) groups . IT subjects underwent 8 weeks of at-home syllable identification training and in-laboratory testing , whereas DT subjects underwent identical in-laboratory testing without training . Training produced large improvements in syllable identification in IT subjects , whereas spontaneous improvement was minimal in DT subjects . DT subjects then underwent training and showed performance improvements comparable with those of the IT group . Training-related improvement in NST scores significantly exceeded improvements due to amplification . In Experiment 2 , experienced HA users received identical training and testing procedures as users in Experiment 1 . The experienced users also showed significant training benefit . Training-related improvements generalized to untrained voices and were maintained on retention tests . Perceptual training appears to be a promising tool for improving speech perception in new and experienced HA users
Satisfaction and speech perception were frequent secondary outcomes .
There was diversity in measures used to report patient outcomes .
Outcome categories other than patient health status and behavior were rarely reported .
This review has highlighted considerable diversity in patient-reported outcome measurements in r and omized control trials in the context of adult auditory rehabilitation .
OBJECTIVES This review documented the range and nature of reported outcome measures in the context of adult auditory rehabilitative research .