TABLE 6.

The correlation between Hearing Handicap Inventory for older adults (HHIE) and personal and audiological variables of the group (N = 20).

	HHIE-E T0	HHIE-E T1	HHIE-E T2	HHIE-S T0	HHIE-S T1	HHIE-S T2	HHIE-T T0	HHIE-T T1	HHIE-T T2
Age	–0.16	0.25	0.19	0.15	0.35	0.31	–0.08	0.32	0.25
Education	0.21	0.09	–0.01	0.18	–0.06	0.13	0.18	0.03	0.05
GDS	0.55*	0.41	0.21	0.44	0.17	0.35	0.55*	0.31	0.25
Duration of HL	0.13	–0.04	–0.17	0.24	0.07	0.12	0.23	–0.01	–0.08
CI use	–0.08	–0.03	–0.24	0.04	0.13	0.08	0.01	0.07	–0.04
Words quiet	–0.41	–0.50*	–0.37	–0.40	–0.18	–0.25	–0.46	–0.41	–0.28
Words SNR + 10	–0.17	–0.005	0.06	0.06	0.19	0.07	–0.05	0.05	0.06
Sentences quiet	–0.35	–0.45	–0.10	–0.25	–0.19	–0.15	–0.36	–0.35	–0.11
Sentences SNR + 10	–0.36	–0.44	–0.44	–0.31	–0.39	–0.43	–0.38	–0.43	–0.43
It-matrix dB SNR	0.27	0.43	0.22	0.23	0.13	0.18	0.36	0.32	0.21

Pre-intervention (T0), 1-month (T1) and at 6-month (T2) follow-up. The values of Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient (r) are marked * for p < 0.05. GDS = Geriatric Depression Scale; SNR = signal-to-noise ratio.