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
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