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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Laryngorhinootologie 2022; 101(S 02): S260
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1746877
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Otology / Neurootology / Audiology: Audiology / Pediatric Audiology

Age standardization and time-of-day performance for the Oldenburger Satztest (OLSA)- results from the population-based Gutenberg Health Study

Authors

  • Karoline O'Brien

    1   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde Mainz

  • Berit Hackenberg

    1   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde Mainz

  • Julia Döge

    1   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde Mainz

  • Katharina Bahr

    1   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde Mainz

  • KarlJ. Lackner

    2   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Institut für klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin Mainz

  • ManfredE. Beutel

    3   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Klinik und Poliklinik für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie Mainz

  • Thomas Münzel

    4   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Kardiologie I Mainz

  • Philipp Wild

    4   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Kardiologie I Mainz

  • Alexander Schuster

    5   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Augenheilkunde Mainz

  • Irene Schmidtmann

    6   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Institut für Medizinische Biometrie; Epidemiologie und Informatik Mainz

  • Christoph Matthias

    1   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde Mainz

  • Andrea Bohnert

    7   Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Klinik für Kommunikationsstörungen Mainz
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Introduction Hearing loss affects around 466 million people worldwide. The Oldenburg Sentence Test (OLSA) is a test procedure for determining speech perception in background noise with a large number of repeatable test lists.

At the current time, there is no official age standardization of the OLSA for adults. Furthermore, in addition to the lack of categorization by age, no data is available for the OLSA regarding the time-of-day dependent performance.

Methods The Gutenberg Health Study (GHS) is an ongoing population-based study and designed as a single-center, observational, prospective cohort study. It was initiated at the Mainz University Hospital, Germany, in 2007 and planned to cover the population of the city of Mainz and it´s district of Mainz-Bingen.. 

The OLSA was performed in two runs. The SNR 50% threshold was documented for the test run for each participant.

Results were characterized by age, sex, decade (5 year intervals) and hearing signal-noise-ratio (SNR) 50%. Furthermore a timestamp was implemented with an hourly interval. The data for the OLSA 50 % SNR were divided separately by age cohorts for men and women.

Results Complete data on OLSA was available for 2900 participants (main cohort).

The 50% signal-noise-ratio for the OLSA showed a mean of -6,94  ± 0.99 dB (Group 1 male) and -7,09  ± 0,75 dB (Group 1 female) with a steady positivation over the course of the age cohorts.

Conclusion A study with this amount of evaluable Oldenburg sentence tests is a novelty and the results show a representative population of the population in Mainz and surroundings. By the shown age dependence we postulate an age standardized scale for the evaluation of the OLSA.



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