MATERIAL AND METHOD
This study used audiological findings of six different pathologies belonging to five patients with a definitive diagnosis. Pathologies were selected according to their incidence rates. Chronic otitis media (COM), secretory otitis media (SOM) and Menieré’s disease (MD) were classified as common pathologies, while SSCD, large vestibular aqueduct syndrome (LVA) and auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) were classified as rare pathologies. Pure tone threshold, speech, and tympanometric test results in all pathologies were marked on the audiogram form. The ANSD patient also had otoacoustic emission and auditory brainstem response (ABR) test results (Table 1). Audiograms were prepared in the form of a questionnaire. Apart from audiological findings, no additional information such as audiology report, patient history, otoscopic or radiological findings was included in the questionnaire. The answers accepted as correct according to the pathologies are given in Table 2.
Questionnaires were filled with the face-to-face interview technique. The interviewers were selected from among the final year students of the received training on survey interviews. Ethical approval (02.05.2019-710) was obtained from Ethics Committee of the ………. University ………..