Online Arabic and English Digits-in-Noise Tests: Effects of Test Language and At-Home Testing.

Purpose: The Digits-in-Noise (DIN) test is used widely in research and, increasingly, in remote hearing screening. The reported study aimed to provide basic evaluation data for browser-based DIN software, which allows remote testing without installation of an app. It investigated the effects of test language (Arabic vs.

Determinants of Vaccine Hesitancy among Home Health Care Service Recipients in Saudi Arabia.

Background: Vaccine hesitancy has been identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a major worldwide health threat. Home Health Care (HHC) service recipients represent a vulnerable group and were prioritized to receive coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination during the national vaccine campaigns in Saudi Arabia. We aimed to investigate the most frequent reasons for vaccine hesitancy among home health care recipients in Saudi Arabia.

Predictors of Mortality in Home Health Care Service: Data from Saudi Arabia.

Objective: This study aimed to 1) report the prevalence of chronic conditions among Saudi people receiving long-term home health care (HHC) services, 2) identify the predictors of mortality among individuals receiving long-term HHC services, and 3) study the association between frailty and poor health outcomes among HHC users.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study.

Setting And Participants: A total of 555 participants were recruited from HHC services at King Saud University Medical City (KSUMC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Establishing the reliability and the validity of the Arabic translated versions of the Effort Assessment Scale and the Fatigue Assessment Scale.

Objective: The aim was to establish the reliability and the validity of Arabic translated versions of the Fatigue Assessment Scale (FAS) and the Effort Assessment Scale (EAS).

Design: The FAS and the EAS were translated from the original English following a recommended six-step approach for translating hearing-related questionnaires for different languages. The reliability of the scales was investigated using Cronbach's alpha, item-total correlation, and inter-item correlation.

Is COVID-19 associated with self-reported audio-vestibular symptoms?

Objective: To determine if a positive test for COVID-19 is associated with self-reported audio-vestibular symptoms.

Design: Self-reported changes in hearing, tinnitus, hyperacusis, and dizziness/rotatory vertigo were assessed in hospitalised and non-hospitalised COVID-19 patients and the acute phase of the disease and compared to non-COVID controls.

Study Sample: There were 150 severe cases of COVID-19 requiring hospital admission and 150 mild cases that were managed at home.

Subclinical Auditory Neural Deficits in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.

Objectives: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with a variety of sensory complications. Very little attention has been given to auditory neuropathic complications in DM. The aim of this study was to determine whether type 1 DM (T1DM) affects neural coding of the rapid temporal fluctuations of sounds, and how any deficits may impact on behavioral performance.

Place specificity measured in forward and interleaved masking in cochlear implants.

Interleaved masking in cochlear implants is analogous to acoustic simultaneous masking and is relevant to speech processing strategies that interleave pulses on concurrently activated electrodes. In this study, spatial decay of masking as the distance between masker and probe increases was compared between forward and interleaved masking in the same group of cochlear implant users. Spatial masking patterns and the measures of place specificity were similar between forward and interleaved masking.