The Emotional Communication in Hearing Questionnaire (EMO-CHeQ): Development and Evaluation.
Gurjit Singh, Lisa Liskovoi, Stefan Launer and 1 others
PMID 29894380WHAT IT FOUND
People with hearing loss reported more trouble understanding emotion in voices than people with normal hearing, and hearing aid users reported similar trouble to those not using aids.
The EMO-CHeQ captures this voice-emotion handicap.
Key findings
01In the final online sample of 586 participants, the unaided and aided hearing loss groups reported more total EMO-CHeQ handicap than the normal hearing group.
02In the final laboratory sample of 32 participants, the unaided and aided hearing loss groups reported more total handicap than the normal or near-normal hearing group.
03On the audio-only emotion identification task, the unaided and aided hearing loss groups performed worse than the normal or near-normal hearing group.
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What it does not show
The online study had no audiograms, so hearing status was self-reported. The lab study had 32 participants and only 10 in the hearing aid group, so it is small. The paper developed and evaluated a questionnaire, so it does not show that any treatment helps. The authors did not establish that the questionnaire has the same factor structure in all hearing groups. The discussion group had only four participants and no formal thematic analysis. The online study did not directly assess hearing aid fitting quality.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that hearing aids do not help any communication. The paper only compared groups with self-reported hearing loss and hearing aid use, and it did not test a hearing aid intervention or directly assess hearing aid fitting quality in the online study.