A comparison of the quality of life of hearing-impaired people as estimated by three different utility measures

Barton, Garry R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9040-011X, Bankart, John and Davis, Adrian C. (2005) A comparison of the quality of life of hearing-impaired people as estimated by three different utility measures. International Journal of Audiology, 44 (3). pp. 157-63. ISSN 1708-8186

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of life of hearing-impaired adults, as assessed by three different utility measures - the EuroQol (EQ-5D), the Health Utilities Index Mark III (HUI3), and the SF-6D (derived from the SF-36 questionnaire). Measuring quality of life in terms of utility enables the benefits of many interventions to be compared on a common scale, where 0 corresponds to death and 1 to perfect health. Utility scores for 915 new referrals (mean age 69 years, 55% male) to four UK audiology clinics were estimated. The mean utility scores on the EQ-5D (0.79), SF-6D (0.77), and HUI3 (0.56) were all significantly different from each other The agreement between measures was most commonly moderate according to the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC =0.36 to 0.58). This suggests that different utility measures will provide different estimates of the effectiveness of hearing aid provision.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Public Health and Health Services Research (former - to 2023) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Services and Primary Care Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Clinical Trials Unit Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Economics Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Population Health (former - to 2025)
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2010 11:11
Last Modified:	18 Jun 2026 15:34
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/14146
DOI:	10.1080/14992020500057566

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