OHHR – The Oldenburg Hearing Health Record [Dataset]

Description of the dataset The Oldenburg Hearing Health Record (OHHR) provides a publicly accessible dataset that can be used to advance hearing health research. It includes a constellation of data collected from 581 participants (aged 18–86 years; 255 female; Mean age = 67.31 years; SD = 11.93) between 2013 and 2015 at the Hörzentrum Oldenburg in collaboration with the Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4all". The data was anonymized in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR; Regulation (EU) 2016/679). Each participant was assigned a unique identifier to maintain anonymity while enabling multivariate individualized analyses. All the different data types are listed below:Subjective Measures Home Questionnaire SF-12 Health Survey Technology Readiness Questionnaire Anamnesis Audiological Tests Pure Tone Audiometry Adaptive Categorical Loudness Scaling Digit Triplet Test (Speech Reception Threshold in Noise: Screening) Göttingen Sentence Test (Speech Reception Threshold in Noise) Cognitive Measures DemTect WortSchatz Demographic Information Socio-economic data Scheuch-Winkler Index (calculated) Supporting Documentation MethodsDescription.rtf/.pdf: Provides detailed explanations of data type and collection procedures.data.zip/metadata: Includes schema and description files for all data tables. A supporting paper was published on Scientific Data: Jafri, S., Berg, D., Buhl, M. et al. The Oldenburg Hearing Health Record (OHHR). Sci Data 12, 1546 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05884-y