Affiliations: [a] Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Medicine ENT Clinic, Konya, Turkey
| [b] Ege University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Audiology, Izmir, Turkey
| [c] Malatya Turgut Ozal University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Malatya, Turkey
| [d] İnönü University, Faculty of Health Science, Department of Audiology, Malatya, Turkey
| [e] Hamidiye University of Health Sciences, Audiology, Ankara, Turkey
| [f] Gülhane University of Health Sciences, Audiology, Ankara, Turkey
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Corresponding author: Tuğba Emekci, Gülhane University of Health Sciences, Audiology, Ankara, Turkey. Tel.: +90 332 223 60 00; Fax: +90 223 61 81; E-mail: t.emekci@hotmail.com.
Abstract: BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:There exists limited information in the literature on dominant hand preference in relation with vHIT applications. The present study aimed to examine the relationship between the clinician’s dominant use of right- or left-hand and vHIT results. METHODS:A Synapsys vHIT Ulmer device was used in the study. The tests were administered by 3 clinicians experienced in vHIT, 2 of whom were right-handed and 1 left-handed. The test was applied to the 94 participants three times, one week apart. RESULTS:In this study, the correlation between right-handed clinicians and left-handed clinicians was examined, and in all SCCs, namely RA, LA, RL, LL, RP and LP, a moderate positive significant correlation was found between right-handed1 and right-handed2, between right-handed1 and left-handed, and between right-handed2 and left-handed. CONCLUSIONS:In this study, these findings suggested that measures were reliable across test sessions regardless of hand dominancy (right or left). Based on the vHIT results we obtained with three different right- or left-handed clinicians, the clinician should evaluate the results according to the dominant side.
Keywords: Hand-dominance, left-hand dominance, right-hand dominance, vestibulo-ocular reflex, video head impulse test
