title: Self-assessment of hearing impairment: test of the expanded hearing ability scale questionnaire on hearing impaired adults in England.
abstract: The National Center for Health Statistics developed a questionnaire for self-assessment of hearing impairment which has been widely tested in the United States. The performance of this questionnaire was tested on a sample of 131 people in England, known to have hearing impairment and gave results very similar to those obtained in the United States. These results are compared with a randomly selected sample from the general population. Characteristics of the hearing ability scale derived from the questionnaire are discussed and some suggestions made for a modified version of the questionnaire. The relationship between the average pure tone threshold and the score derived from the hearing ability scale questionnaire is described and takes the form of a bounded relationship with scale score indicating the minimum threshold level.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001299:Audiometry; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012494:Sampling Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires