{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,20]],"date-time":"2026-02-20T01:26:49Z","timestamp":1771550809709,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"American Academy of Audiology","issue":"7","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["j am acad audiol"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2008,7,1]]},"abstract":"Background:<\/jats:bold> The Speech Recognition in Noise Test (SPRINT) is a word-recognition instrument that presents the 200 Northwestern University Auditory Test No.\u20056 (NU-6) words binaurally at 50\u2005dB HL in a multitalker babble at a 9\u2005dB signal-to-noise ratio (S\/N)\n (Cord et al, 1992). The SPRINT was developed by and used by the Army as a more valid predictor of communication abilities (than pure-tone thresholds or word-recognition in quiet) for issues involving fitness for duty from a hearing perspective of Army personnel. The Words-in-Noise test (WIN)\n is a slightly different word-recognition task in a fixed level multitalker babble with 10\u2005NU-6 words presented at each of 7\u2005S\/N from 24 to 0\u2005dB S\/N in 4\u2005dB decrements (Wilson, 2003; Wilson and McArdle, 2007). For the two instruments, both the babble and the speakers\n of the words are different. The SPRINT uses all 200\u2005NU-6 words, whereas the WIN uses a maximum of 70 words. Purpose:<\/jats:bold> The purpose was to compare recognition performances by 24 young listeners with normal hearing and 48 older listeners with sensorineural hearing on the SPRINT and\n WIN protocols. Research Design:<\/jats:bold> A quasi-experimental, mixed model design was used. Study Sample:<\/jats:bold> The 24 young listeners with normal hearing (19 to 29 years, mean \u00a0=\u00a0 23.3 years) were from the local university and had normal hearing (\u226420\u2005dB HL; American National\n Standards Institute, 2004) at the 250\u20108000\u2005Hz octave intervals. The 48 older listeners with sensorineural hearing loss (60 to 82 years, mean \u00a0=\u00a0 69.9 years) had the following inclusion criteria: (1) a threshold at 500\u2005Hz between 15 and 30\u2005dB HL, (2) a\n threshold at 1000\u2005Hz between 20 and 40\u2005dB HL, (3) a three-frequency pure-tone average (500, 1000, and 2000\u2005Hz) of \u226440\u2005dB HL, (4) word-recognition scores in quiet \u226540%, and (5) no history of middle ear or retrocochlear pathology as determined by an audiologic\n evaluation. Data Collection and Analysis:<\/jats:bold> The speech materials were presented bilaterally in the following order: (1) the SPRINT at 50\u2005dB HL, (2) two half lists of NU-6 words in quiet at 60\u2005dB HL and 80\u2005dB HL, and (3) the two 35-word lists of the WIN materials with\n the multitalker babble fixed at 60\u2005dB HL. Data collection occurred during a 40\u201060\u2005minute session. Recognition performances on each stimulus word were analyzed. Results:<\/jats:bold> The listeners with normal hearing obtained 92.5% correct on the SPRINT with a 50% point on the\n WIN of 2.7\u2005dB S\/N. The listeners with hearing loss obtained 65.3% correct on the SPRINT and a WIN 50% point at 12.0\u2005dB S\/N. The SPRINT and WIN were significantly correlated (r<\/jats:italic> \u00a0=\u00a0 \u22120.81, p<\/jats:italic> < .01), indicating that the SPRINT had good concurrent\n validity. The high-frequency, pure-tone average (1000, 2000, 4000\u2005Hz) had higher correlations with the SPRINT, WIN, and NU-6 in quiet than did the traditional three-frequency pure-tone average (500, 1000, 2000\u2005Hz). Conclusions:<\/jats:bold> Graphically and numerically the SPRINT and\n WIN were highly related, which is indicative of good concurrent validity of the SPRINT.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3766\/jaaa.19.7.4","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,3,14]],"date-time":"2009-03-14T14:29:02Z","timestamp":1237040942000},"page":"548-556","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["A Comparison of Two Word-Recognition Tasks in Multitalker Babble: Speech Recognition in Noise Test (SPRINT) and Words-in-Noise Test (WIN)"],"prefix":"10.3766","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Richard H.","family":"Wilson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wendy B.","family":"Cates","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2087","container-title":["Journal of the American Academy of Audiology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/aaa\/jaaa\/2008\/00000019\/00000007\/art00006","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,6]],"date-time":"2025-02-06T07:55:25Z","timestamp":1738828525000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/10.3766\/jaaa.19.7.4"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2008,7,1]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"7","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2008,7,1]]}},"alternative-id":["1050-0545(20080701)19:7L.548;1-"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3766\/jaaa.19.7.4","relation":{},"ISSN":["1050-0545"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1050-0545","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2008,7,1]]}}}