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Original Article

Comparison of the Hearing Threshold Measured by Manual Pure-Tone and by Self-Recording (Békésy) Audiometry

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Pages 414-429 | Published online: 07 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

The hearing thresholds of 115 subjects aged 25-63 years and working on a shipyard were determined both by Békésy sweep audiometry and by conventional manual octave pure-tone audiometry at fixed audiometric frequencies. The attenuation rate was 2.5 dB s-1 with pulsed-tone presentation and the sweep time from 0.25 to 10 kHz was 400 s for the Békésy audiometer. Manual pure-tone audiometry was performed in 5-dB steps. The Békésy method gave the lowest values for the hearing thresholds. It has been possible to find a useful linear relation between pure-tone and Békésy hearing thresholds. With the help of a retest experiment, it has been established, that the standard deviations of hearing thresholds obtained under similar conditions in a pure-tone investigation are about twice as large as those obtained in a Békésy investigation.

Nous avons recherché les seuils d'audition en audiométrie de Békésy (son pulsé; attéenuation 2,5 dB s-1; temps de balayage des fréquences de o,25 à 10 kHz: 400 s) et en audiométrie standard (par paliers de 5 dB) chez 115 sujets aˇgés de 25 à 63 ans et travaillant sur un chantier de construction navale.

Les seuils les plus bas ont été obtenus par l'audiométrie de Békésy. Nous avons pu trouver un rapport de linéarité utile entre le seuils donnés par chacune des deux méthods. Après les tests et tests de contrôle effectués dans des conditions similaries, nous avons établi que les déviations standard des seuils étaient, en audiométrie standard, environ deux fois plus grandes qu'en audiométrie de Békésy.

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