Journal article
Validation of a tablet-based assessment of auditory sensitivity for researchers
Behavior research methods, Vol.55(6), pp.2838-2852
09/01/2023
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-01933-1
PMCID: PMC10228289
PMID: 35962308
Abstract
Quantifying hearing acuity is increasingly important across a wide range of research areas in the behavioral and neurosciences. Scientists have relied on either self-reported hearing status or the availability of diagnostic hearing assessment in past studies. There remains a need for a valid and reliable assessment of auditory sensitivity that can provide estimates of the magnitude of hearing loss, if present, without requirements for professional audiologists, facilities, and equipment that are needed to conduct a diagnostic hearing assessment. The goal of this experiment was to validate the NIH Toolbox® Hearing Threshold Test (HTT), a tablet-based hearing assessment available via iPad application that uses consumer-grade headphones, on a clinical sample of children and adults with varying degrees of hearing acuity. Electroacoustic analysis of the hearing assessment application and headphones demonstrated acoustic outputs within established conformity standards for hearing assessment. Twenty-seven children and 63 adults participated in a standard diagnostic hearing assessment and the experimental tablet-based assessment. The results showed that thresholds from the tablet-based assessment were highly correlated with thresholds from the clinical hearing assessment (r = .83-.93) for children and adults for all frequencies and across a range of levels of hearing acuity. The HTT also met clinical test-retest reliability standards (Cronbach's α > .86). The tablet-based hearing assessment provides acceptable estimates of hearing levels for children and adults when diagnostic audiometric assessment capabilities are not available.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Validation of a tablet-based assessment of auditory sensitivity for researchers
- Creators
- Kathryn Wiseman - Boys TownJerry Slotkin - University of DelawareMeredith Spratford - Boys TownAmberlee Haggerty - Boys TownMaggie Heusinkvelt - Boys TownSandra Weintraub - Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USARichard Gershon - Northwestern UniversityRyan McCreery - Boys Town
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Behavior research methods, Vol.55(6), pp.2838-2852
- DOI
- 10.3758/s13428-022-01933-1
- PMID
- 35962308
- PMCID
- PMC10228289
- ISSN
- 1554-351X
- eISSN
- 1554-3528
- Grant note
- R01 DC018330 / NIDCD NIH HHS U2C AG057441 / NIA NIH HHS T32 DC000013 / NIDCD NIH HHS P30 AG072977 / NIA NIH HHS P20 GM109023 / NIGMS NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2023
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9984627198102771
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