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Published August 21, 2025 | Version 1.3.0.0
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OHHR – The Oldenburg Hearing Health Record [Dataset]

Creators

  • 1. Department of Psychology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
  • 2. Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4All", Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
  • 3. Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
  • 4. IHU reConnect, Institut de l'Audition, Fondation Pour l'Audition, Inserm, AP-HP, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, F-75012 Paris, France
  • 5. Hörzentrum Oldenburg, Germany

Description

Description of the dataset

The Oldenburg Hearing Health Record (OHHR) provides a publicly accessible dataset that can be used to advance hearing health research. It includes a constellation of data collected from 581 participants (aged 18–86 years; 255 female; Mean age = 67.31 years; SD = 11.93) between 2013 and 2015 at the Hörzentrum Oldenburg in collaboration with the Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4all". The data was anonymized in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR; Regulation (EU) 2016/679). Each participant was assigned a unique identifier to maintain anonymity while enabling multivariate individualized analyses. 

All the different data types are listed below:

Subjective Measures

  • Home Questionnaire
  • SF-12 Health Survey
  • Technology Readiness Questionnaire
  • Anamnesis

Audiological Tests

  • Pure Tone Audiometry
  • Adaptive Categorical Loudness Scaling
  • Digit Triplet Test (Speech Reception Threshold in Noise: Screening)
  • Göttingen Sentence Test (Speech Reception Threshold in Noise)

Cognitive Measures

  • DemTect
  • WortSchatz

Demographic Information

  • Socio-economic data
  • Scheuch-Winkler Index (calculated)

Supporting Documentation

MethodsDescription.rtf/.pdf: Provides detailed explanations of data type and collection procedures.
data.zip/metadata: Includes schema and description files for all data tables.

A supporting paper was published on Scientific Data:

Jafri, S., Berg, D., Buhl, M. et al. The Oldenburg Hearing Health Record (OHHR). Sci Data 12, 1546 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05884-y

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Additional details

Related works

Is described by
Journal article: 10.1038/s41597-025-05884-y (DOI)

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Hearing4all EXC 2177/1 - Project ID 390895286

References