Accuracy of an internet-based speech-in-noise hearing screening test for high-frequency hearing loss: incorporating automatic conditional rescreening.

Purpose: To validate the accuracy of an internet-based speech-in-noise hearing screening test for high-frequency hearing loss (HFHL) 'Occupational Earcheck (OEC)' incorporating an automatic conditional rescreening, in an occupationally noise-exposed population. Secondary objectives were to assess the effects of age on test accuracy measures, and to assess the test accuracy for different degrees of HFHL.

Methods: A study was conducted on cross-sectional data of occupational audiometric examinations, including the index test OEC and reference standard pure-tone air conduction audiometry, of 80 noise-exposed workers.

Age Dependence of Thresholds for Speech in Noise in Normal-Hearing Adolescents.

Previously found effects of age on thresholds for speech reception thresholds in noise in adolescents as measured by an online screening survey require further study in a well-controlled teenage sample. Speech reception thresholds (SRT) of 72 normal-hearing adolescent students were analyzed by means of the online speech-in-noise screening tool Earcheck (In Dutch: Oorcheck). Screening was performed at school and included pure-tone audiometry to ensure normal-hearing thresholds.

Evaluation of an internet-based speech-in-noise screening test for school-age children.

Objective: To evaluate a Dutch online speech-in-noise screening test (in Dutch: "Kinderhoortest") in normal-hearing school-age children. Sub-aims were to study test-retest reliability, and the effects of presentation type and age on test results.

Design: An observational cross-sectional study at school.

Laboratory evaluation of an optimised internet-based speech-in-noise test for occupational high-frequency hearing loss screening: Occupational Earcheck.

Objective: The "Occupational Earcheck" (OEC) is a Dutch online self-screening speech-in-noise test developed for the detection of occupational high-frequency hearing loss (HFHL). This study evaluates an optimised version of the test and determines the most appropriate masking noise.

Design: The original OEC was improved by homogenisation of the speech material, and shortening the test.

Cross-sectional evaluation of an internet-based hearing screening test in an occupational setting.

Objectives The Occupational Earcheck (OEC) is an online internet test to detect high-frequency hearing loss for the purposes of occupational hearing screening. In this study, we evaluated the OEC in an occupational setting in order to assess test sensitivity, specificity, and validity. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2015, in which the optimized OEC was evaluated on 94 employees from the army and three different companies in construction and manufacturing.

Application of the online hearing screening test "Earcheck": Speech intelligibility in noise in teenagers and young adults.

Objective: The objective was to describe the speech intelligibility in noise test results among Dutch teenagers and young adults aged 12-24 years, using a national online speech reception threshold (SRT) test, the Earcheck. A secondary objective was to assess the effect of age and gender on speech intelligibility in noise.

Design: Cross-sectional SRT data were collected over a 5-year period (2010-2014), from participants of Earcheck.