OHHR – The Oldenburg Hearing Health Repository [Dataset]

Description of the dataset

The Oldenburg Hearing Health Repository (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 of the same name detailing the dataset and methodologies will be published and made publicly available soon.