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Looking Back to Move Forward: A Retrospective on FHD in Clinical Practice, in partnership with the American Academy of Audiology

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1.  Functional Hearing Difficulties (FHD) are best characterized by which of the following clinical presentations?
  1. Elevated pure-tone thresholds with normal speech-in-noise performance
  2. Normal pure-tone thresholds with suprathreshold processing deficits
  3. Conductive hearing loss with abnormal tympanometry
  4. Progressive sensorineural hearing loss
2.  Which pure-tone threshold range was used in the presentation to define “clinically normal” hearing?
  1. Less or equal tot 15 dB HL
  2. Less than or equal to 20 dB HL
  3. Less than or equal to 25 dB HL
  4. Less than or equal to 30 dB HL
3.  Which of the following terms was listed as terminology used to describe adults with FHD?
  1. Noise-induced hearing loss
  2. Hidden hearing loss
  3. Ménière’s disease
  4. Otosclerosis
4.  Why is the FHD population considered clinically important?
  1. They rarely seek help
  2. They show no quality-of-life impact
  3. They are often diagnosed as normal without suprathreshold testing
  4. They usually have severe audiometric hearing loss
5.  What was the average age of participants included in the retrospective analysis?
  1. 25 years
  2. 30 years
  3. 35 years
  4. 45 years
6.  Which comorbidity was among the most commonly reported by adults with FHD in this sample?
  1. Multiple sclerosis
  2. Hypertension
  3. Anxiety/depression
  4. Diabetes
7.  What did the retrospective data show regarding the relationship between pure-tone audiometry and QuickSIN performance?
  1. No meaningful correlation
  2. Strong positive correlation
  3. Moderate negative correlation
  4. Perfect correlation
8.  What percentage of patients who demoed hearing aids ultimately adopted them?
  1. 30%
  2. 51%
  3. 44%
  4. 62%
9.  What was the average QuickSIN SNR loss observed in the sample?
  1. 7 dB
  2. 3 dB
  3. 1 dB
  4. 0 dB
10.  Compared to non-adopters, patients who adopted hearing aids demonstrated which of the following on the Revised Speech-in-Noise (RSPIN) test?
  1. Better unaided high-probability sentence scores only
  2. No difference between aided and unaided performance
  3. Worse aided performance overall
  4. Poorer unaided low-probability scores and greater aided improvement