Table 6 Participants’ knowledge toward sense of hearing among elderly people in the pre and post intervention
Knowledge about sense of hearing | Pre-test n = 531 | Post-test n = 531 | P-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Correct | Incorrect | Correct | Incorrect | ||||||
No | % | No | % | No | % | No | % | ||
Sense of hearing decrease in the elderly? | 464 | 87.4 | 67 | 12.6 | 496 | 93.4 | 35 | 6.6 | 0.001* |
Signs of impaired hearing in the elderly | |||||||||
The elderly people ask more than once | 434 | 81.7 | 97 | 18.3 | 486 | 91.5 | 45 | 8.5 | 0.001* |
Statement (I hear you, but I cannot distinguish what you are saying.) | 268 | 50.5 | 263 | 49.5 | 298 | 56.1 | 233 | 43.9 | 0.065 |
See the speaker is mumbling | 244 | 46.0 | 287 | 54.0 | 301 | 56.7 | 230 | 43.3 | 0.001* |
No loud sounds are heard | 81 | 15.3 | 450 | 84.7 | 166 | 31.3 | 365 | 68.7 | 0.001* |
Understand speech incorrectly and does not follow the context of the conversation | 204 | 38.4 | 327 | 61.6 | 264 | 49.7 | 267 | 50.3 | 0.001* |
Effect of poor hearing on the elderly | |||||||||
Isolation and withdrawal from various social events | 468 | 88.1 | 63 | 11.9 | 517 | 97.4 | 14 | 2.6 | 0.001* |
Frustration and depression | 276 | 52.0 | 255 | 48.0 | 313 | 58.9 | 218 | 41.1 | 0.022* |