Validation of hearing handicap inventory for the elderly questionnaire among elderly subjects in Sagamu, Nigeria.

Background: Use of hearing impairment (HI) questionnaires has been an alternative to formal audiometry.

Objective: To validate hearing handicap inventory for the elderly (HHIE) questionnaire and verify its suitability or otherwise as a screening instrument in low-resource clinical settings.

Subjects And Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study deployed the HHIE questionnaire to detect emotional and situational hearing handicaps (HHs) and assigned scores.