Grouping of answers
If the participants’ answer included the corect pathology the answer was defined as “correct.” If more than one pathology was listed next to the correct answer, the others were ignored.
If the type of hearing loss was specified instead of the pathology causing the hearing loss, the response was classified as “undefined.” Responses that did not include the correct pathology and type of hearing loss were classified as ”incorrect”. The audiological findings of the pathologies are given in Table 1.