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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
Proposed norms for the Glasgow hearing-aid benefit profile (Ghabp) questionnaire
William M Whitmer1, Patrick Howell, Michael A Akeroyd
1MRC/CSO Institute of Hearing Research - Scottish Section, Glasgow Royal Infirmary , Glasgow , UK.
Objective:
To form a normative set of responses to the GHABP questionnaire from a large regional dataset.
Design:
Participants were asked to rate their hearing disability, handicap, hearing-aid (HA) use, HA benefit, HA satisfaction, and residual (aided) disability on a five-point scale for four situations: quiet conversation, television (TV) listening, noisy conversation, and group conversation. A subset of participants also estimated the time spent in these situations.
Study Sample:
A group of 1574 adults with normal to profound hearing thresholds participated.
Results:
There was a significant relationship between increasing perceived disability and increasing hearing loss as given by the better-ear audiometric average (BEA). Responses for HA measures did not vary greatly with hearing loss: HA use was reported as high, whereas residual disability, HA benefit, and satisfaction were all reported on average as moderate.
Conclusions:
The results can be used as a normative dataset with which to evaluate individual responses in the clinic, where the GHABP provides a useful short-form questionnaire to engage the patient. The lack of systematic changes in hearing-aid related responses shows room for improvement in the benefit afforded by amplification.
