Calibration and initial validation of a low-cost computer-based screening audiometer coupled to consumer insert phone-earmuff combination for boothless audiometry.

To undertake calibration and preliminary validation of a custom-designed computer-based screening audiometer connected to consumer insert phone-earmuff combination for adult pure tone audiometry. Part 1 involved electroacoustic measurement and biological calibration of a laptop-earphone pair used fo...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Audiology Vol. 61; no. 10; pp. 850 - 859
Autores principales: Seluakumaran, Kumar, Shaharudin, Majdina N.
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2022
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          Seluakumaran, Kumar
          Shaharudin, Majdina N.
        affil: Auditory Lab, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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          Audiometry, Pure-Tone
          Ear Protective Devices
          Hearing Disorders Diagnosis
          Hearing Screening
          Audiometers
          Human
          Acoustic Impedance Tests
          Convenience Sample
          Auditory Threshold
          Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient
          Descriptive Statistics
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      ab: To undertake calibration and preliminary validation of a custom-designed computer-based screening audiometer connected to consumer insert phone-earmuff combination for adult pure tone audiometry. Part 1 involved electroacoustic measurement and biological calibration of a laptop-earphone pair used for the computer-based audiometry (CBA). Part 2 compared CBA thresholds obtained without a sound booth with those measured using the gold-standard clinical audiometry. 17 young normal-hearing volunteers (Part 1) and 43 normal and hearing loss subjects (Part 2) recruited from an audiology clinic via convenience sampling. The transducer-device combination produced outputs suitable for measuring thresholds down to 0 dB HL. Threshold pairs obtained from the CBA and clinical audiometry were highly correlated (Spearman's correlation coefficient, ρ = 0.92, p < 0.0001) and had a good degree of agreement (mean difference of −1.06 ± 7.63 dB). Also, the CBA showed about 90% sensitivity and 80% specificity for detecting hearing loss based on low (0.5, 1, 2 kHz) and high frequency (4, 8 kHz) pure tone averages of >25 dB HL. The use of a computer-based audiometer application with consumer insert phone-earmuff combination can offer a cost-effective solution for boothless screening audiometry.
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