Development and Validation of a Self-Administered Online Hearing Test.

ABSTRACT: We describe the development and validation of a self-administered online hearing test, which screens for hearing loss and provides an estimated audiogram. The hearing test computes test results from age, self-reported hearing abilities, and self-assessed pure-tone thresholds. It relies on regression, Bayesian and binary classification, leveraging probabilistic effects of age as well as interfrequency and interaural relationships in audiograms. The test was devised based on development data, collected prospectively in an online experiment from a purposive convenience sample of 251 adult American, Australian, Canadian, and Swiss participants, 58% of whom had hearing loss. Later, we externally validated the hearing test. Validation data were collected prospectively from a representative sampl

SUBMITTER: Vercammen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11920986 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature