Older adults' performance on the speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing scale (SSQ): Test-retest reliability and a comparison of interview and self-administration methods

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 733-740

  Singh, Gurjit ^a   Kathleen Pichora Fuller, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aging; Psycho social emotional; Psychoacoustics hearing Science; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING DISORDER; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STANDARD; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957607670     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2010.491097     Document Type: Article

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