A comparison of an audiometric screening survey with an in-depth research questionnaire for hearing loss and hearing loss risk factors.
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SUBMITTER: Mosites E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5718840 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
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A comparison of an audiometric screening survey with an in-depth research questionnaire for hearing loss and hearing loss risk factors.
Mosites Emily E Neitzel Richard R Galusha Deron D Trufan Sally S Dixon-Ernst Christine C Rabinowitz Peter P
International journal of audiology 20160909 12
<h4>Objective</h4>We assessed the reliability of a hearing risk factor screening survey used by hearing conservation programmes for noise-exposed workers.<h4>Design</h4>We compared workers' answers from the screening survey to their answers to a confidential research questionnaire regarding hearing loss risk factors. We calculated kappa statistics to test the correlation between yes/no questions in the research questionnaire compared to answers from 1 and 5 years of screening surveys.<h4>Study s ...[more]
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