Table 3.

Bivariate Correlations among QOL Measures from the NCIQ and Speech and Environmental Sound Outcome Measures for CI Participants

r Values	Word Recognition (Percent Correct)	Standard Sentence Recognition (Percent Correct Words)	AzBio Sentence Recognition (Percent Correct Words)	High-Variability Sentence Recognition (Percent Correct Words)	Audiovisual Sentence Recognition (Percent Correct Words)	Environmental Sound Recognition (Percent Correct)
NCIQ (sum score)	0.21	0.22	0.22	0.23	0.41*	0.31
Physical—basic sound perception	0.08	0.07	0.34	0.04	0.15	0.15
Physical—advanced sound perception	0.43**	0.36*	0.48*	0.37*	0.36*	0.40*
Physical—speech production	0.36*	0.35*	0.49*	0.27	0.38*	0.56**
Physical (sum score)	0.35*	0.30	0.50*	0.27	0.35*	0.44**
Psychological—self-esteem (sum score)	0.16	0.19	0.08	0.17	0.39*	0.26
Social—activity limitations	0.02	0.10	0.07	0.17	0.26	0.15
Social—social interactions	0.10	0.14	0.07	0.19	0.44**	0.17
Social (sum score)	0.06	0.12	0.07	0.18	0.36*	0.16

Note: Bold values have a significant p value after Holm–Bonferroni correction.

^*p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01