소음성 난청 선별검사에 HHIE-S(Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly-Screening version)의 적용

The study was conducted from May to September in 1994 to investigate applicability of the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly-Screening version(HHIE-S) in parallel with the pure-tone audiometer to the initial screening test of noise-induced hearing loss(NIHL) in some noise-exposed workers. Subjects were selected by systemic sampling that took every 10th person from 6, 700 workers taking the annual occupational health examination by the department of Health Maintenance of Dongsan Hospital Keimyung University in Taegu. The authors administered the pure-tone audiometric test and self-reported questionnaire of HHIE-S including items of sociodemographic and job-related variables concurrently. The final subjects analysed were 1,019(488 males and 531 females) excluding fourteen persons who had many missing values in their questionnaires. The reliability coefficients of HHIE-S scale by Cronbach's alpha were 0.84. In the univariate analysis of hearing handicap measured by the HHIE-S, work duration, military service and the hearing threshold loss at 1KHz and 4KHz by the initial audiometer were significant in males while age, work duration and hearing threshold loss at 1KHz and 4KHz were significant in females. In the stepwise linear regression analysis, hearing threshold loss at 1KHz and 4KHz, was the only selected variable explaining the hearing handicap in males and hearing threshold loss at 1KHz and 4KHz, age, and work duration were selected in females. In ROC curves for HHIE-S scores against NIHL as gold standard which was defined by the follow-up audiogram as more than 30dB of the average of 0.5/1/2KHz and 50dB at 4KHz, the optimal cutoff for the parallel HHIE-S appeared to be 8. The results suggest that HHIE-S appeared to have some reliability and validity in this data and might be used in screening NIHL in parallel with pure-tone audiometer in noise-exposed workers. 이 연구는 1994년도 5월부터 9월까지 동산병원 건강 관리과에서 소음특수건강진단을 받은 근로자 중 일부를 대상으로 하여 1차 선별 순음청력검사에 난청선별 설문지(HHIE-S)의 적용가능성을 점검해 보기 위하여 시행되었다. 대상자는 이 기간중의 특수검진 수진자들로서 총 6,700명 중 계통적 표본추출법에 의하여 매 5번째의 근로자가 추출되었다. 최종분석 대상은 자료가 미비한 14명을 제외한 1,019명으로 남자 488명, 여자 531명이었다. 소음성 난청의 1차 선별검사로 순음청력검사와 HHIE-S를 포함한 설문지검사를 실시하였다. 청력검사의 1차 선별기준은 양쪽 어느 귀의 청력손실이 4000Hz 에서 40dB이상인 자로 하였고 2차 정밀검사에서 난청의 기준은 3분법으로 계산하여 30dB 이상이면서 4000Hz에서 50dB 이상의 청력손실이 있는 자로 하였다. 설문지의 신뢰도는 0.84였다. 청력장애와 관련된 변수들의 단일변량분석에서 유의한 차이를 보인 항목은 남자에서 HHIE-S 총척도와 사회적/상황적 소척도에서 근무기간, 군복무력, 1000Hz 및 4000Hz에서의 청력역치였으며 여자에서 총척도와 소척도 모두에서 연령, 근무기간, 1000Hz 및 4