HU Yang,ZHAO Hang,LIU Qiao-yun.The Impact of Wearing Masks on Speech Perception and Listening Effort in Pre-School Children with Hearing Impairment[J].Chinese Scientific Journal of Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation,2024,22(02):146-149.
HU Yang,ZHAO Hang,LIU Qiao-yun.The Impact of Wearing Masks on Speech Perception and Listening Effort in Pre-School Children with Hearing Impairment[J].Chinese Scientific Journal of Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation,2024,22(02):146-149. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-4933.2024.02.007.
The Impact of Wearing Masks on Speech Perception and Listening Effort in Pre-School Children with Hearing Impairment
To explore the specific impact of wearing a mask on the engagement of listening effort in speech perception among preschool hearing-impaired children.
Methods
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Use 3 (mask types: no mask
surgical mask
transparent mask) × 2 (audiovisual level: pure listening
audiovisual) two factors repeated measurement experimental design. This study measured the working memory score of 29 preschool hearing-impaired children using a serial recall task to understand their listening effort fitness engagement.
Results
2
Under pure auditory conditions
the average score of preschool hearing-impaired children without masks was 33.91%
which was not significantly different from the surgical mask test score of 30.32% (
P
=0.315)
but significantly higher than the average score of 25.72% for transparent masks (
P
<
0.001)
and the surgical mask score was significantly higher than the transparent mask score (
P
=0.045). At the audio-visual level
the average score of preschool hearing-impaired children without wearing masks was 41.15%
significantly higher than the 28.02% score of surgical masks (
P
<
0.001) and the 32.90% score of transparent masks (
P
<
0.001)
and the score of transparent masks was significantly higher than that of surgical masks (
P
=0.030).
Conclusion
2
Wearing a mask can lead to an increase in the level of listening effort invested in speech perception by preschool hearing-impaired children
but under the conditions of surgical masks for pure listening and transparent masks for audiovisual use
children are relatively less engaged in listening effort.
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