SUN Kai,ZHU Bei,YANG Jian-Hong,et al.Exploring the Simplification Potential of the Chinese Hearing Handicap Inventory for Elderly-Screening[J].Chinese Scientific Journal of Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation,2023,21(02):149-153.
SUN Kai,ZHU Bei,YANG Jian-Hong,et al.Exploring the Simplification Potential of the Chinese Hearing Handicap Inventory for Elderly-Screening[J].Chinese Scientific Journal of Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation,2023,21(02):149-153. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-4933.2023.02.009.
Exploring the Simplification Potential of the Chinese Hearing Handicap Inventory for Elderly-Screening
To shorten the length of the Chinese Hearing Handicap Inventory for Elderly-Screening (HHIE-S)
and analyze the correlation between the full version HHIE-S score and the pure tone threshold and the correlation between the short version HHIE-S score and the pure tone threshold.
Methods
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A total of 659 community geriatric residents (173 from Beijing
486 from Shanghai) completed the HHIE-S questionnaire
173 residents from Beijing also completed the pure tone audiometric test. A constrained principal component analysis was used to investigate the questionnaire's potential for shortening and remove redundant items. Pearson correlation analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between the HHIE-S scores (full version and short version
respectively) and the pure tone average threshold.
Results
2
The HHIE-S (10 items) total score
the HHIE-S emotional (5 items) subscore
and the HHIE-S social (5 items) subscore were significantly correlated with pure tone threshold (
P
<
0.001); Results of the constrained principal component analysis showed that five items of the HHIE-S questionnaire could preserve about 80% of the questionnaire variability; Both full and short versions of HHIE-S scores displayed significant relationship with the pure tone thresholds (
P
<
0.001).
Conclusion
2
The Chinese version of HHIE-S has the potential to be simplified
and the simplified scale retains questions 1
2
3
6 and 8 of the original scale
but still has a good correlation with the pure tone hearing threshold.
关键词
老年人听力筛查量表简化限定性主成分分析
Keywords
Older adultHearing screeningQuestionnaire shorteningConstrained principal component analysis
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