TY - JOUR
T1 - The goaudio quantitative mobile audiology test enhances access to clinical hearing assessments
AU - Koleilat, Alaa
AU - Argue, David P.
AU - Schimmenti, Lisa A.
AU - Ekker, Stephen C.
AU - Poling, Gayla L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the CTSA Grant Number UL1 TR000135 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a component of the National Institutes of Health, supporting A. Koleilat; Mayo Clinic Department of Otorhinolaryngology supporting L. A. Schimmenti and G. L. Poling, and the Mayo Clinic Foundation supporting S. C. Ekker. This article’s contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the National Institutes of Health. Portions of this work were presented in a poster at the Association of Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) Translational Science Meeting in March 2019. We would like to thank the Mayo Clinic Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Division of Audiology for their continued support throughout the study. We specifically thank Mathew Schmitt and Paula Orr for their assistance in recruitment, testing, and institutional review board management. Thank you to Owen Still and Wayne Olsen for their expertise and technical assistance with calibration. We thank the members of the Poling, Ekker, and Schimmenti Laboratories for their contributions. We acknowledge the One Mayo Clinic Audiology Project contributions to this work.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the CTSA Grant Number UL1 TR000135 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a component of the National Institutes of Health, supporting A. Koleilat; Mayo Clinic Department of Otorhinolaryngology supporting L. A. Schimmenti and G. L. Poling, and the Mayo Clinic Foundation supporting S. C. Ekker. This article?s contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the National Institutes of Health. Portions of this work were presented in a poster at the Association of Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) Translational Science Meeting in March 2019. We would like to thank the Mayo Clinic Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Division of Audi-ology for their continued support throughout the study. We spe-cifically thank Mathew Schmitt and Paula Orr for their assistance in recruitment, testing, and institutional review board management. Thank you to Owen Still and Wayne Olsen for their expertise and technical assistance with calibration. We thank the members of the Poling, Ekker, and Schimmenti Laboratories for their contribu-tions. We acknowledge the One Mayo Clinic Audiology Project contributions to this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Purpose: Hearing loss is a common impairment of the human senses with an estimated 48 million American adults reporting some trouble hearing; however, access to hearing health care is limited. Detection of hearing loss through a mobile, handheld tool can provide an important access point and potentially expedited access to the continuum of hearing health care. Here, we determined that GoAudio, a portable, automated hearing assessment tool, can be used to identify individuals who require additional hearing evaluation in a clinical workflow. Method: This initial study included 24 adults, ages 18– 65 years (M = 50, SD = 12), tested with GoAudio versus “gold-standard” clinical audiometry for eight frequencies to evaluate “real-world” applications. Participants utilized noise-canceling headphones combined with a tablet-based application for the GoAudio assessment. Results: The primary study outcome measurements were the comparison of hearing thresholds (dB HL) from clinical audiometry and GoAudio. Results suggest that GoAudio is comparable to clinical audiometry for the identification of hearing loss at most frequencies (except 1 kHz for both ears and 2 kHz in the right ear). Upon stratifying data based on age, we identified that GoAudio is capable of identifying suspected age-related hearing loss or hearing thresholds greater than 30 dB HL at higher frequencies in both ears. Conclusion: The study results support that GoAudio can be used effectively in clinical practice workflows as a reliable hearing assessment tool for the identification of hearing loss at the majority of frequencies outside a sound-treated booth and can detect characteristics of age-related hearing loss.
AB - Purpose: Hearing loss is a common impairment of the human senses with an estimated 48 million American adults reporting some trouble hearing; however, access to hearing health care is limited. Detection of hearing loss through a mobile, handheld tool can provide an important access point and potentially expedited access to the continuum of hearing health care. Here, we determined that GoAudio, a portable, automated hearing assessment tool, can be used to identify individuals who require additional hearing evaluation in a clinical workflow. Method: This initial study included 24 adults, ages 18– 65 years (M = 50, SD = 12), tested with GoAudio versus “gold-standard” clinical audiometry for eight frequencies to evaluate “real-world” applications. Participants utilized noise-canceling headphones combined with a tablet-based application for the GoAudio assessment. Results: The primary study outcome measurements were the comparison of hearing thresholds (dB HL) from clinical audiometry and GoAudio. Results suggest that GoAudio is comparable to clinical audiometry for the identification of hearing loss at most frequencies (except 1 kHz for both ears and 2 kHz in the right ear). Upon stratifying data based on age, we identified that GoAudio is capable of identifying suspected age-related hearing loss or hearing thresholds greater than 30 dB HL at higher frequencies in both ears. Conclusion: The study results support that GoAudio can be used effectively in clinical practice workflows as a reliable hearing assessment tool for the identification of hearing loss at the majority of frequencies outside a sound-treated booth and can detect characteristics of age-related hearing loss.
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U2 - 10.1044/2020_AJA-20-00060
DO - 10.1044/2020_AJA-20-00060
M3 - Article
C2 - 33079580
AN - SCOPUS:85097851681
VL - 29
SP - 887
EP - 897
JO - American Journal of Audiology
JF - American Journal of Audiology
SN - 1059-0889
IS - 4
ER -