Table 1.
Baseline demographic characteristics by performance on the DSI test
| DSI < 50% N=44 |
DSI ≥ 50% N=230 |
Total N=274 |
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| Gender, n (%) | |||
| Female | 27 (61.4) | 145 (63.0) | 172 (62.8) |
| Male | 17 (38.6) | 85 (37.0) | 102 (37.2) |
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| Age in years, mean (sd) | 83.3 (5.6) | 78.9 (4.8) | 79.6 (5.2) |
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| Educational Level | |||
| ≤High school | 18 (40.9) | 52 (22.7) | 70 (25.6) |
| Some college | 13 (29.6) | 56 (24.5) | 69 (25.3) |
| College graduate | 13 (29.6) | 121 (52.8) | 134 (49.1) |
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| Hearing complaint | |||
| No | 13 (29.6) | 105 (45.7) | 118 (43.1) |
| Yes | 31 (70.5) | 125 (54.4) | 156 (56.9) |
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| Ever used a hearing aid | |||
| No | 36 (81.8) | 206 (89.6) | 242 (88.3) |
| Yes | 8 (18.2) | 24 (10.4) | 32 (11.7) |
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| Pure-tone average, mean (sd) | |||
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| Better ear | 27.8 (8.5) | 22.7 (8.7) | 23.5 (8.9) |
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| Worse ear | 33.2 (8.5) | 26.9 (9.4) | 27.9 (9.5) |
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| Word recognition score, worse ear | |||
| < 80 | 42 (95.5) | 225 (97.8) | 267 (97.5) |
| ≥ 80 | 2 (4.6) | 5 (2.2) | 7 (2.6) |
| Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI), baseline | 88.8 (5.4) | 95.6 (3.9) | 94.5 (4.9) |