Evaluation of Relationship Between Hearing Threshold and Loudness Discomfort Level in Sensorineural Hearing Loss
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
- Vol. 44 (1) , 31-36
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshd.4401.31
Abstract
The relationship between hearing level and loudness discomfort level (LDL) for narrow-band noise was evaluated in two groups of patients with sensorineural hearing loss. Group I had thresholds ranging from 25–60 dB SPL and Group II’s thresholds ranged from 65–100 dB SPL. LDLs were determined for narrow bands of noise centered at 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz. The LDLs for Group II were greater than those for Group I and the differences were statistically significant. It is speculated that one reason for others not finding differences as a function of hearing level may be the absence of severe to profound hearing loss in the test populations.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: