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Characteristic No. of participants*
n = 100Sex Male 64 Female 36 Age, yr, median (IQR) 46 (37–58) Age group, yr 20–39 32 40–49 22 50–59 26 60–69 14 70–79 6 Length of time spent homeless, yr < 1 38 1–5 33 > 5 29 Median (IQR) 2 (0.5–6.0) Ethnicity White 57 Black 35 Aboriginal 4 East Asian 2 South Asian 2 Marital status Single 66 Married/common-law marriage 9 Divorced, separated or widowed 24 Declined to answer 1 Highest level of education achieved Elementary school 1 Junior high school 8 Some high school 19 High school graduate 37 Some college education 35 Monthly income, $ < 500 45 500–1000 23 > 1000 22 Declined to answer 10 Note: IQR = interquartile range.
↵* Except where noted otherwise.
Hearing threshold; age group, yr No. (%) of participants Normal hearing (≤ 25 dB) Mild loss (26–40 dB) Moderate or worse loss (≥ 41 dB) Speech frequency 20–39 27 (84) 4 (12) 1 (3) 40–59 31 (65) 11 (23) 6 (12) ≥ 60 3 (15) 7 (35) 10 (50) High frequency 20–39 25 (78) 4 (12) 3 (9) 40–59 21 (44) 17 (35) 10 (21) ≥ 60 3 (15) 7 (35) 10 (50) - Table 3:
Prevalence of measured 4-tone and high-tone pure-tone average frequency loss in study participants and the general Canadian population, (25) total and by selected characteristics
Characteristic Speech frequency hearing loss, % (95% CI) High frequency hearing loss, % (95% CI) Study participants General Canadian population Study participants General Canadian population Sex Male 42.2 (30.9–54.4) 25.3 (20.9–30.4) 56.2 (44.1–67.7) 41.2. (36.5–46.0) Female 27.8 (15.8–44.0) 13.1 (11.0–15.6) 30.6 (18.0–46.9) 29.7 (24.9–35.0) Age, yr 20–39 15.6 (6.9–31.8) 7.1 (4.2–11.7) 21.9 (11.0–38.8) 8.0 (5.3–11.9) 40–49 31.8 (16.3–52.7) 10.1 (6.6–15.2) 50.0 (30.7–69.3) 21.3 (14.6–31.4) 50–59 34.6 (19.4–3.8) 19.9 (14.1–27.3) 57.7 (39.0–74.5) 49.1 (39.9–58.3) 60–69 92.8 (68.5–98.7) 38.3 (34.4–42.3) 92.9 (68.5–98.7) 74.1 (70.1–77.7) 70–79 66.7 (30.0–90.3) 65.0 (56.4–72.7) 1.0 (61.0–100.0) 93.8 (88.1–96.8) Noise exposure No 36.6 (23.6–51.9) – 46.3 (32.1–61.3) – Yes 40.7 (29.1–53.4) – 57.6 (44.9–69.4) – Total 39.5 (30.4–49.3)* 19.2 (16.9–21.7) 51.9 (42.2–61.4)* 35.5 (33.1–37.7) Note: CI = confidence interval.
↵* Standardized for age and sex.