Hearing and Vision in Healthy Older Australians: Objective and Self-Report Measures

Hickson, Louise; Lind, Christopher; Worrall, Linda; Yiu, Eml; Barnett, Heather; Lovie‐Kitchin, Jan E.

doi:10.3109/14417049909167163

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“…If this criterion is applied to the BMHS data then 31.6% (12 out of 38) of people with speech affecting strokes who reported that they had a hearing loss had normal hearing. This is very similar to the Hickson et al (1999) data.…”

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“…Other researchers (Hickson, Lind, Worrall, Yiu, Barnett & Lovie-Kitchin, 1999) have defined normal hearing in older Australians as being a better ear 4FA of less than or equal to 25dBHL. Not surprisingly, given this more generous criterion for normal hearing, Hickson et al (1999) found that there was a mismatch amongst their participants aged between 60 and 93 years in both directions between self reported hearing loss and level of impairment as measured by pure tone audiometry. That is, approximately one third of participants with ''normal'' hearing , that is, better ear 4FA HTLs of less than or equal to 25dBHL, reported some difficulty with their hearing.…”

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An audiological profile of elderly Australians reporting speech affecting stroke

Wigney¹,

Golding

Newall

et al. 2005

Advances in Speech Language Pathology

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This study examined the audiological profile and hearing rehabilitation of 73 people who reported having had speechaffecting strokes. Participants were drawn from the Blue Mountains Hearing Study (BMHS), a population survey of agerelated hearing loss in 2956 members of a representative elderly Australian community. While speech-affecting stroke did not seem to cause greater levels of hearing impairment or handicap than for other participants matched for age and gender, this may be due to a low prevalence of participants with severe effects on speech or language as a result of their stroke. Although 52% of participants self-reported a hearing loss, fewer than 23% had ever worn a hearing aid with only 15% wearing hearing aids for more than 1 hour per day. Pure tone audiometry identified 64% of participants with thresholds considered appropriate for hearing aid fitting when previously established criteria were applied. Questions concerning use of hearing aid/s and self reported hearing loss were not reliable in determining which participants with a speech affecting stroke met these audiometric criteria. The risks of uncorrected hearing loss compromising speech and language assessment and rehabilitation following stroke are discussed.

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An audiological profile of elderly Australians reporting speech affecting stroke

Wigney¹,

Golding

Newall

et al. 2005

Advances in Speech Language Pathology

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“…Research in this area has highlighted the wide range of activity limitations and participation restrictions that occur as a result of hearing impairment (e.g. Dalton et al, 2003;Helvik et al, 2006;Morgan et al, 2002;Stark & Hickson, 2004;Stephens & Zhao, 1996), and the prevalence of hearing impairment in older people means that a significant number of them experience such effects (Hickson et al, 1999;Wilson et al, 1999). Somewhat less well appreciated is the impact of hearing impairment on the spouses of people with impaired hearing.…”

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The effect of hearing impairment in older people on the spouse: Development and psychometric testing of The Significant Other Scale for Hearing Disability (SOS-HEAR)

Scarinci

Worrall

Hickson

2009

International Journal of Audiology

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The effects of hearing impairment on the person with the impairment and on their significant others are pervasive and affect the quality of life for all involved. The effect of hearing impairment on significant others is known as a third-party disability. This study aimed to develop and psychometrically test a scale to measure the third-party disability experienced by spouses of older people with hearing impairment. The Significant Other Scale for Hearing Disability (SOS-HEAR) was based on results of a previous qualitative study investigating the effect of hearing impairment on a spouse's everyday life. Psychometric testing with 100 spouses was conducted using item analysis, Cronbach's alpha, factor analysis, and test-retest reliability. Principal components analysis identified six key underlying factors. A combined set of 27 items was found to be reliable (alpha = 0.94), with weighted kappa for items ranging from fair to very good. The SOS-HEAR is a brief, easy to administer instrument that has evidence of reliability and validity. The SOS-HEAR could serve as a means of identifying spouses of older people with hearing impairment in need of intervention, directed towards either the couple or the spouse alone.

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“…The acuity values worse than this were considered to be associated with significant vision impairment [17]. The Distance VA of 99 participants varied from À0.10 to 0.30 logMAR.…”

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Website design attributes for retrieving health information by older adults: an application of architectural criteria

Nayak

Priest

Stuart‐Hamilton

et al. 2006

Univ Access Inf Soc

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The objectives of this research were to identify design attributes to develop easy-to-use websites for older adults. Forty-one males and 58 females (age range 58-90) were asked to retrieve information on a healthrelated topic from the NHS Direct and Medicdirect websites, and were asked to fill in a website evaluation questionnaire. An exploratory factor analysis of data identified navigation/search usability, link usability, usefulness and colour as important dimensions of a senior-friendly website. A two-stage, three-component regression model with these dimensions as predictor variables and the satisfaction level in using a website as the dependent variable has been proposed.

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Hearing and Vision in Healthy Older Australians: Objective and Self-Report Measures

Cited by 40 publications

References 32 publications

An audiological profile of elderly Australians reporting speech affecting stroke

An audiological profile of elderly Australians reporting speech affecting stroke

The effect of hearing impairment in older people on the spouse: Development and psychometric testing of The Significant Other Scale for Hearing Disability (SOS-HEAR)

Website design attributes for retrieving health information by older adults: an application of architectural criteria

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