Investigating Bilateral Hearing Loss, Cognitive Function, and Hearing Aid Use in Healthy Adults

The file includes: 28 Normal Hearing participants, 14 participants with untreated BHL and 17 participants who are HAs-users.

Participants underwent a cognitive assessment including:
1. computerized cognitive assessment evaluating Composite Memory, Cognitive Flexibility, Executive Function (EF), Complex Reaction Time (RT), Sustained Attention, and Working Memory.
2. Paper-based Trail Making Test (TMT) A & B
3. Hearing Impairment Montreal Cognitive Assessment (HI-MoCA)/MoCA.
4. Cognitive task (subtracting 1 and 3)- Single and Dual task

Outcomes in the dataset:
ID
Groups
Demographic characteristics: age, gender, weight, height, race, health condition, medications, falls, exercise level and types, ABC, DHI, HL onset, HL duration, HL severity,
Outcome measures: MOCA, HI MOCA, TMT A & B, CNSVS Raw and standardised scores: Composite Memory, Cognitive Flexibility, EF, Complex RT, Sustained Attention, and Working Memory, Cognitive task (subtracting 1 and 3)- Single and Dual task scores, DTC1 and DTC3.