Table 2.

Recruitment and hearing assessment characteristics.

		Age group (years)
Characteristics	Overall	Children (age <18)	Adults (age ≥ 18)	p-value
Participants contacted, n	168	38	130
Participants reached, n (%)	136 (81)	33 (87)	103 (79)
Agreed to participate, n (%a)	100 (74)	23 (70)	77 (75)
Calls per enrollmentb, median (range)	2 (1–6)	2 (1–4)	2 (1–6)
Completed assessment, n (%c)	97 (97)	20 (87)	77 (100)
Equipment returned, n (%c)	100 (100)	23 (100)	77 (100)
Assessment duration, meand (s.d.)	37.6 (10.4)	38.9 (11.3)	37.3 (10.1)	0.56
Assessment duration, mediand (range)	35 (17–83)	35 (25–70)	35 (17–83)	0.72
Turnaround time, meane (s.d.)	8.3 (5.7)	6.2 (1.7)	8.8 (6.3)	0.001
Turnaround time, mediane (range)	6 (3–45)	6 (4–10)	7 (3–45)	0.10
Time from self-reported to assessed hearing (months), meanf (s.d.)	17.4 (5.6)	14.4 (5.8)	18.2 (5.3)	0.006
Time from self-reported to assessed hearing (months), medianf (range)	18 (2–29)	16 (2–22)	19 (4–29)	0.003

^aPercentage of those reached

^bFor those with available data

^cPercentage of those who agreed to participate

^dMinutes

^eDays

^fMonths