SynthesisBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2003
Whispered voice test for screening for hearing impairment in adults and children: systematic review.
Synthesis in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04241302 (Development of a Mobile-app Based Free Field Click Test Against Conventional Free Field Voice Test), which is not on this map. Cited by 55 papers.
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Development of a Mobile-app Based Free Field Click Test Against Conventional Free Field Voice Test
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55 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Development and Beta Validation of an mHealth-Based Hearing Screener (SRESHT) for Young Children in Resource-Limited Countries: Pilot Validation Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
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- Effect of Soundscape Augmentation on Behavioral Symptoms in People With Dementia: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Optimizing age-related hearing risk predictions: an advanced machine learning integration with HHIE-S.BioData mining · 2023Article
- Faster Walking Speeds Require Greater Activity from the Primary Motor Cortex in Older Adults Compared to Younger Adults.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the accuracy of the whispered voice test in detecting hearing impairment in adults and children.
designSystematic review of studies of test accuracy. DATA SOURCES: Medline, Embase, Science Citation Index, unpublished theses, manual searching of bibliographies of known primary and review articles, and contact with authors. STUDY SELECTION: Two reviewers independently selected and extracted data on study characteristics, quality, and accuracy of studies. Studies were included if they had cross sectional designs, at least one of the index tests was the whispered voice test, and the reference test (audiometry) was performed on at least 80% of the participants. DATA EXTRACTION: Data were used to form 2x2 contingency tables with hearing impairment by audiometry as the reference standard. DATA SYNTHESIS: The eight studies that were found used six different techniques. The sensitivity in the four adult studies was 90% or 100% and the specificity was 70% to 87%. The sensitivity in the four childhood studies ranged from 80% to 96% and specificity ranged from 90% to 98%.
conclusionThe whispered voice test is a simple and accurate test for detecting hearing impairment. There is some concern regarding the lower sensitivity in children and the overall reproducibility of the test, particularly in primary care settings. Further studies should be conducted in primary care settings to explore the influence of components of the testing procedure to optimise test sensitivity and to promote standardisation of the testing procedure.
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