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Table 3 Correlation between subjective and objective hearing tests. Results for bilateral (n = 19) and unilateral patients (n = 19) separately

From: Correlation between subjective and objective hearing tests after unilateral and bilateral cochlear implantation

 

U-STARR

p-value comparison correlationa

 

Bilateral

Unilateral

 
 

Spearman r

p-valuea

Spearman r

p-valuea

 

SSQ 1 (Speech in silence and noise)

−0.50

0.031

−0.21

0.379

0.342

NCIQ advanced sound perception

−0.55

0.014

−0.43

0.067

0.653

 

SISSS best performing situation

 
 

Bilateral

Unilateral

 
 

Spearman r

p-valuea

Spearman r

p-valuea

 

SSQ 1 (Speech in silence and noise)

−0.44

0.057

−0.29

0.230

0.624

NCIQ advanced sound perception

−0.54

0.016

−0.38

0.109

0.562

 

SISSS worst performing situation

 
 

Bilateral

Unilateral

 
 

Spearman r

p-valuea

Spearman r

p-valuea

 

SSQ 1 (Speech in silence and noise)

−0.28

0.247

−0.15

0.544

0.697

NCIQ advanced sound perception

−0.43

0.067

−0.38

0.110

0.865

 

Localization

 
 

Bilateral

Unilateral

 
 

Spearman r

p-valuea

Spearman r

p-valuea

 

SSQ 2 (Spatial hearing)

0.47

0.042

−0.22

0.929

0.038

  1. r: <0.19 = very weak, r 0.20–0.39 = weak, r 0.40–0.59 = moderate, r 0.60–0.79 = strong, r > 0.80 = very strong. U-STARR = Utrecht- Sentence Test with Adaptive Randomised Roving levels, SSQ = Speech, Spatial and Qualities hearing scale. NCIQ = Nijmegen CI Questionnaire, SISSS = speech-intelligibility test with spatially separated sources (SISSS)
  2. aAfter correction for multiple testing with the Benjamini-Hochberg false discovery rate procedure, none of the test results yielded significant results