Papers by Theresa Hnath-Chisolm
Journal of the …, 2007
This is the final report of the American Academy of Audiology Task Force on the Health-Related Qu... more This is the final report of the American Academy of Audiology Task Force on the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) Benefits of Amplification in A d u l t s. A systematic review with meta-analysis examined evidence pertaining to the use of hearing aids for improving HRQoL for adults with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). Relevant search strings applied to the C E N T R A L, CINAHL, Cochrane reviews, ComDisDome, EBMR, and PubMed databases identified randomized controlled trial, quasi-experimental, and nonexperimental pretest/posttest designed studies. Sixteen studies met a priori criteria for inclusion in this review. A r a n d o me ffects meta-analysis showed differential results for generic versus disease-specific HRQoL measures for within-and betweensubject designs. Although generic measures used for within-subject designs did not demonstrate HRQoL benefits from hearing aids, mean effect sizes and confidence intervals for within-subject designs and disease-specific instruments suggested that hearing aids have a small-to-medium impact on HRQoL. F u r t h e r, the between-subject studies supported at least a small effect for generic measures, and when measured by disease-specific instruments, hearing aids had medium-to-large effects on adults' HRQoL. This review concludes that hearing aids improve adults' H R Q o L by reducing psychological, social, and emotional effects of SNHL. Future studies should include control groups using randomized controlled trials.
Linguistics and Education, 2002
The present study investigated whether differences existed among 28 sequential bilingual children... more The present study investigated whether differences existed among 28 sequential bilingual children, ages 911 years, with varied English proficiency, in their clausal and nonclausal choices for encoding subjective concepts in narratives in both Spanish and English. The ...
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Papers by Theresa Hnath-Chisolm