The Hearing-Dependent Daily Activities Scale to Evaluate Impact of Hearing Loss in Older People
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The Hearing-Dependent Daily Activities Scale to evaluate impact of hearing loss in older people.
PURPOSE We wanted to design and validate the Hearing-Dependent Daily Activities (HDDA) Scale as a means of identifying the impact of hearing loss in older persons by measuring capacity to carry out hearing-dependent activities. METHODS We undertook a cross-sectional, observational study to validate a scale administered during a personal interview with 1,160 participants aged 65 years and olde...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Family Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1544-1709,1544-1717
DOI: 10.1370/afm.890