Table 3. Crosstab for the dichotomized answers to the question ‘Do you have any difficulty with your hearing?’.
For defining mild hearing loss, all positive answers were included. For moderate hearing loss, “regularly” and “often” were the answer options included. These subjective measures were compared to the objective PTA0.5–4, mild: ≥20dBHL, and moderate: ≥35dBHL. Number of participants are depicted in each category.
| Whole population | < 65 years | 65–80 years | > 80 years | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjective hearing loss | No | Yes | Preva-lence (%) | No | Yes | Preva-lence (%) | No | Yes | Preva-lence (%) | No | Yes | Preva-lence (%) | |
| Mild hearing loss ≥20dBHL | No | 1,610 | 715 | 47.4% | 911 | 468 | 77.5% | 643 | 226 | 37.6% | 56 | 21 | 9.4% |
| Yes | 777 | 1,804 | 52.6% | 113 | 287 | 22.5% | 481 | 960 | 62.4% | 183 | 557 | 90.6% | |
| Prevalence (%) | 48.7% | 51.3% | 57.7% | 42.3% | 48.7% | 52.3% | 29.3% | 70.7% | |||||
| Moderate hearing loss ≥ 35 dBHL | No | 3,593 | 340 | 80.2% | 1,570 | 149 | 96.6% | 1,705 | 151 | 80.3% | 318 | 40 | 43.8% |
| Yes | 440 | 533 | 19.8% | 17 | 43 | 3.4% | 206 | 248 | 19.7% | 217 | 242 | 56.2% | |
| Prevalence (%) | 82.2% | 17.8% | 89.2% | 9.1% | 82.7% | 17.3% | 65.5% | 34.5% | |||||