OHHR – The Oldenburg Hearing Health Record [Dataset]

<p><strong>Description of the dataset</strong></p> <p>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&ndash;86 years<em>; </em>255 female; <em>Mean age =&nbsp;67.31 years; SD = 11.93</em>) between 2013 and 2015 at the H&ouml;rzentrum 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.&nbsp;</p> <p>All the different data types are listed below:<br><br><strong>Subjective Measures</strong></p> <ul> <li>Home Questionnaire</li> <li>SF-12 Health Survey</li> <li>Technology Readiness Questionnaire</li> <li>Anamnesis</li> </ul> <p><strong>Audiological Tests</strong></p> <ul> <li>Pure Tone Audiometry</li> <li>Adaptive Categorical Loudness Scaling</li> <li>Digit Triplet Test&nbsp;(Speech Reception Threshold in Noise: Screening)</li> <li>G&ouml;ttingen Sentence Test&nbsp;(Speech Reception Threshold in Noise)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Cognitive Measures</strong></p> <ul> <li>DemTect</li> <li>WortSchatz</li> </ul> <p><strong>Demographic Information</strong></p> <ul> <li>Socio-economic data</li> <li>Scheuch-Winkler Index (calculated)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Supporting Documentation</strong></p> <p><strong>MethodsDescription.rtf/.pdf:</strong> Provides detailed explanations of data type and collection procedures.<br><strong>data.zip/metadata</strong><strong>:&nbsp;</strong>Includes schema and description files for all data tables.</p> <p>A supporting paper was published on Scientific Data:</p> <div> <div> <p>Jafri, S., Berg, D., Buhl, M. <em>et al.</em> The Oldenburg Hearing Health Record (OHHR). <em>Sci Data</em> <strong>12</strong>, 1546 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05884-y</p> </div> </div>