Construction and Evaluation of a High-Frequency Hearing Loss Screening Tool for Community Residents.

ABSTRACT: Early screening and detection of individuals at high risk of high-frequency hearing loss and identification of risk factors are critical to reduce the prevalence at community level. However, unlike those for individuals facing occupational auditory hazards, a limited number of hearing loss screening models have been developed for community residents. Therefore, this study used lasso regression with 10-fold cross-validation for feature selection and model construction on 38 questionnaire-based variables of 4010 subjects and applied the model to training and testing cohorts to obtain a risk score. The model achieved an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.844 in the model validation stage and individuals' risk scores were subsequently stratified into low-, medium-, and high-risk categories. A tot

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8657277 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature