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This study investigates the potential effects of wearing hearing aids on cognitive performance and psychological state in noisy office environments.\n                    <jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold>\n                    A laboratory experiment involved 46 normal-hearing participants. Four sound conditions mixed speech with open-plan office noise at varying signal-to-noise ratios. Stimuli were recorded in a semi-anechoic room using an acoustic dummy head with and without hearing aids, and moderate hearing loss was simulated. Participants performed a 1 h 40 min press review task over headphones. Performance, sound environment perception, fatigue and mental workload were assessed. Repeated-measures analyses of variance was performed to analyse the data.\n                    <jats:bold>Results<\/jats:bold>\n                    : The results revealed a significant principal effect of wearing hearing aids on each of the three dimensions of sound environment perception: noisy (\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">F<\/jats:italic>\n                    (1,44)=70.52,\n                    <jats:sup>***<\/jats:sup>\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; 0.001, \n                              \n                                 \n                              \n                           ), annoying (\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">F<\/jats:italic>\n                    (1,44) = 58.40,\n                    <jats:sup>***<\/jats:sup>\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; 0.001, \n                              \n                                 \n                              \n                           ) and tiring (\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">F<\/jats:italic>\n                    (1,44) = 34.44,\n                    <jats:sup>***<\/jats:sup>\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; 0.001, \n                              \n                                 \n                              \n                           ). In all cases, the environment was perceived more poorly with hearing aids (e.g., mean annoyance\u2009=\u20094.4 vs. 2.7). A small but significant effect was also found on external mental workload (\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">F<\/jats:italic>\n                    (1,45) = 6.1\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sup>*<\/jats:sup>\n                    = 0.017, \n                              \n                                 \n                              \n                           ). No significant effects were detected impacting task performance, perceived fatigue or other workload dimensions (available resources, germane workload).\n                    <jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold>\n                    The findings suggest that, when activities require high levels of concentration, hearing aids may have a detrimental effect on the perception of the sound environment. However, the results highlight the need for collective prevention. Consequently, workspace acoustics should be optimised, regardless of hearing status.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4103\/nah.nah_259_25","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,9]],"date-time":"2026-07-09T04:00:31Z","timestamp":1783569631000},"page":"766-779","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Effects of Hearing Aids in a Simulated Open-Plan Office: A Laboratory Study Involving Normal-Hearing Participants and Simulated Hearing Loss"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Laurent","family":"Brocolini","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut National de Recherche et S\u00e9curit\u00e9, 1 rue du Morvan, Vand\u0153uvre-L\u00e8s-Nancy, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marion","family":"Volpe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut National de Recherche et S\u00e9curit\u00e9, 1 rue du Morvan, Vand\u0153uvre-L\u00e8s-Nancy, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Patrick","family":"Chevret","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut National de Recherche et S\u00e9curit\u00e9, 1 rue du Morvan, Vand\u0153uvre-L\u00e8s-Nancy, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Edith","family":"Galy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire d\u2019Anthropologie et de Psychologie Cliniques, Cognitives et Sociales - Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur, Nice, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vassia","family":"Peytcheva-Sigaut","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire d\u2019Anthropologie et de Psychologie Cliniques, Cognitives et Sociales - Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur, Nice, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Etienne","family":"Parizet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"INSA Lyon, LVA, UR677, 69621 Villeurbanne, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nicolas F","family":"Poncetti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"INSA Lyon, LVA, UR677, 69621 Villeurbanne, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"276","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"R41-20260724","year":"2021"},{"key":"R42-20260724","author":"Do","year":"2023"},{"key":"R43-20260724","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"107943","DOI":"10.1016\/j.apacoust.2021.107943","article-title":"Sound in occupied open-plan offices: objective metrics with a review of historical perspectives","volume":"177","author":"Yadav","year":"2021","journal-title":"Appl Acoust"},{"key":"R44-20260724","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"96","DOI":"10.1080\/00140139.2014.961972","article-title":"Noise effect on comfort in open-space offices: development of an assessment questionnaire","volume":"58","author":"Pierrette","year":"2015","journal-title":"Ergonomics"},{"key":"R45-20260724","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"458","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1600-0668.2005.00391.x","article-title":"A model predicting the effect of speech of varying intelligibility on work performance","volume":"15","author":"Hongisto","year":"2005","journal-title":"Indoor Air"},{"key":"R46-20260724","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"307","DOI":"10.1016\/j.apacoust.2012.08.007","article-title":"Cognitive performance during irrelevant speech: effects of speech intelligibility and office-task characteristics","volume":"74","author":"Jahncke","year":"2013","journal-title":"Appl Acoust"},{"key":"R47-20260724","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1406","DOI":"10.1037\/0096-1523.24.5.1406","article-title":"Is level irrelevant in\u201c irrelevant speech\u201d? 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