Marriage and cohabiting rates among people with childhood sensorineural hearing loss in a large Norwegian cohort: results from the SHINT and the HUNT study

Figures & data

Figure 1. Flow chart of participants from the baseline childhood study (the School Hearing Investigation in Nord-Trøndelag; SHINT) and the age-matched control group study (the Norwegian Health Study; HUNT). ¹Children born in Nord Trøndelag between 1940–1980 = 81,920.

Table 1. SNHL, partner status and age.

SNHL	N	Single	Cohabiting	Married
No hearing loss	49,266	3485 (7.1)	7629 (15.5)	38,152 (77.4)
Any hearing loss	756	109 (14.4)	134 (17.7)	513 (67.9)
Slight hearing loss	246	25 (10.2)	42 (17.1)	179 (72.8)
Mild hearing loss	294	49 (16.7)	61 (20.7)	184 (62.6)
Moderate-profound hearing loss	216	35 (16.2)	31 (14.4)	150 (69.4)
Age (SD)		56 (11)	59 (10)	49 (10)
Total	50,022	3594 (7.2)	7763 (15.5)	38,665 (77.3)

Table 2. Multinomial logistic regression with SNHL as predictor of partner status.

	Cohabiting						Married
	Crude			Model 1^a			Crude			Model 1^a
SNHL	OR	p Value	CI (95%)	OR	p Value	CI (95%)	OR	p Value	CI (95%)	OR	p Value	CI (95%)
Any hearing loss	0.54	0.000	0.42–0.70	0.56	0.000	0.43–0.72	0.39	0.000	0.31–0.47	0.50	0.000	0.40–0.62
Slight hearing loss	0.74	0.238	0.45–1.22	0.68	0.135	0.41–1.13	0.59	0.013	0.39–0.89	0.75	0.183	0.49–1.15
Mild hearing loss	0.55	0.002	0.38–0.80	0.58	0.007	0.40–0.86	0.31	0.000	0.22–0.42	0.40	0.000	0.29–0.56
Moderate-profound hearing loss	0.39	0.000	0.24–0.63	0.43	0.001	0.26–0.71	0.35	0.000	0.24–0.51	0.45	0.000	0.31–0.66

^a Adjusted for sex, age and education.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of the study are available from the HUNT Research Centre (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU) upon application. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under licence for this study.