OHHR – The Oldenburg Hearing Health Repository

Hearing health is shaped by both measurable auditory function and the perceived ability to navigate daily life. To fully understand its complexities, it is essential to integrate objective assessments—behavioural tests that quantify hearing acuity and functional performance— with subjective reports on how individuals navigate and manage their hearing in everyday life. The Oldenburg Hearing Health Repository (OHHR) has been developed to unite these perspectives, providing a comprehensive dataset on hearing health. Collected between 2013 and 2015 at the Hörzentrum Oldenburg in collaboration with Hearing4all, OHHR includes data from 581 individuals (aged 18–86 years; 255 females; mean age = 67.31 years; SD = 11.93) with varying degrees of hearing loss. This publicly accessible dataset combines audiometric tests (Pure Tone Audiometry, Loudness Scaling, Speech in Noise tests) with self-reports on hearing difficulties, lifestyle, technology use, and cognitive assessments (DemTect, Vocabulary size test). By integrating subjective experience with objective measures, OHHR will enable researchers to explore the links between hearing ability, cognition, and quality of life, providing valuable insights to advance precision medicine.