Test-retest reliability of the urban outdoor situated phoneme (SiP) testShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: International Journal of Audiology, ISSN 1499-2027, E-ISSN 1708-8186, Vol. 63, no 11, p. 859-866Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
OBJECTIVE: To introduce the urban outdoor version of the Situated Phoneme (SiP) test and investigate its test-retest reliability.
DESIGN: Phonemic discrimination scores in matched-spectrum real-world (MSRW) maskers from an urban outdoor environment were measured using a three-alternative forced choice test paradigm at different phoneme-to-noise ratios (PNR). Each measurement was repeated twice. Test-retest scores for the full 84-trial SiP-test, as well as for four types of contrasting phonemes, were analysed and compared to critical difference scores based on binomial confidence intervals.
STUDY SAMPLE: Seventy-two adult native speakers of Swedish (26-83 years) with symmetric hearing threshold levels ranging from normal hearing to severe sensorineural hearing loss.
RESULTS: Test-retest scores did not differ significantly for the whole test, or for the subtests analysed. A lower amount of test-retest score difference than expected exceeded the bounds of the corresponding critical difference intervals.
CONCLUSIONS: The urban outdoor SiP-test has high test-retest reliability. This information can help audiologists to interpret test scores attained with the urban outdoor SiP-test.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2024. Vol. 63, no 11, p. 859-866
Keywords [en]
MSRW maskers, Speech audiometry, hearing impairment, matched-spectrum real-world maskers, phonemic discrimination
National Category
Otorhinolaryngology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-109908DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2023.2281880ISI: 001110081100001PubMedID: 38008994Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85177995540OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-109908DiVA, id: diva2:1815405
Note
This study was supported by the Swedish Hearing Foundation (Hörselforskningsfonden), grant No. [2017-540].
2023-11-282023-11-282024-11-06Bibliographically approved