A parsimonious approach for screening moderate-to-profound hearing loss in a community-dwelling geriatric population based on a decision tree analysis

BMC Geriatrics
Min ZhangZhijun Bao

Abstract

Hearing loss is one of the most common modifiable factors associated with cognitive and functional decline in geriatric populations. An accurate, easy-to-apply, and inexpensive hearing screening method is needed to detect hearing loss in community-dwelling elderly people, intervene early and reduce the negative consequences and burden of untreated hearing loss on individuals, families and society. However, available hearing screening tools do not adequately meet the need for large-scale geriatric hearing detection due to several barriers, including time, personnel training and equipment costs. This study aimed to propose an efficient method that could potentially satisfy this need. In total, 1793 participants (≥60 years) were recruited to undertake a standard audiometric air conduction pure tone test at 4 frequencies (0.5-4 kHz). Audiometric data from one community were used to train the decision tree model and generate a pure tone screening rule to classify people with or without moderate or more serious hearing impairment. Audiometric data from another community were used to validate the tree model. In the decision tree analysis, 2 kHz and 0.5 kHz were found to be the most important frequencies for hearing severity classifica...Continue Reading

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