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HEARLI-Q

Hearing-Related Lifestyle questionnaire (HEARLI-Q)

The HEARLI-Q is a questionnaire based on the Common Sound Scenarios (CoSS) framework (Wolters et al., 2016) to assess an individual’s hearing-related lifestyle. The questionnaire includes 23 listening situations that respondents are asked to rate on four dimensions: frequency of occurrence, the importance to hear well, difficulty to hear, and hearing aid satisfaction. Based on the ratings of individual listening situations, four outcomes are derived: the richness of hearing-related lifestyle, hearing demand, hearing difficulty and hearing aid satisfaction. The questionnaire outcomes have excellent day-to-day reliability and good-to-excellent longer-term reliability (Lelic et al., 2022). 

Calculation of the four outcomes

Richness of Hearing-Related Lifestyle = (sum of all occurrence scores/92) × 100  

Hearing Demand = (sum of [occurrence × importance]/368) × 100 

Hearing Difficulty = average of the difficulty scores 

Hearing Aid Satisfaction = average of the satisfaction scores excluding the response “I don’t wear hearing aids in this situation.” It is recommended to report the situations in which respondents do not wear hearing aids alongside the overall hearing aid satisfaction score.