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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Ear and Hearing, 5(33), p. 615-616, 2012

DOI: 10.1097/aud.0b013e31824e0ba7

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Hearing disability measured by the speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing scale in clinically normal-hearing and hearing-impaired middle-aged persons, and disability screening by means of a reduced SSQ (the SSQ5)

Journal article published in 2012 by Kelly Demeester, Vedat Topsakal, Jan-Jaap Hendrickx, Erik Fransen, van Lut Laer, Lut van Laer, van Guy Camp, Guy Van Camp ORCID, van de Paul Heyning, Paul Van de Heyning, Astrid van Wieringen, van Astrid Wieringen
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Abstract

Objectives: The goals of the present study were twofold: in the first part, the prevalence and profile of hearing disability in healthy, middle-aged persons were determined by the speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing scale (SSQ). In the second part of this study, the number of SSQ items was reduced to five to make this questionnaire available for routine usage in clinical settings and for screening purposes. Methods: SSQ responses derived from 103 normal-hearing 18- to 25-year-old persons were compared with the SSQ responses of 24 clinically normal-hearing (all thresholds between 125 and 8000 Hz