Table 2 Participants’ characteristics
From: How do face masks impact communication amongst deaf/HoH people?
UK | Spain | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Gender | ||||||
Female | 195 | 49.4 | 78 | 19.7 | 273 | 69.1 |
Male | 74 | 18.7 | 39 | 9.9 | 113 | 28.6 |
Genderqueer | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 0.5 | ||
Transgender | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.3 | ||
Prefer not to say | 3 | 0.8 | 3 | 0.8 | 6 | 1.5 |
Cochlear implant fitted | 52 | 13.2 | 33 | 8.4 | 85 | 21.5 |
Belongs to a vulnerable group | 89 | 22.5 | 28 | 7.1 | 117 | 29.6 |
Had COVID-19 | 29 | 7.3 | 13 | 3.3 | 42 | 10.6 |
Level of deafness | ||||||
Hard of hearing | 79 | 20.0 | 28 | 7.1 | 107 | 27.0 |
Deaf | 194 | 49.1 | 94 | 23.8 | 288 | 73.0 |
Onset of deafness | ||||||
Early | 179 | 45.3 | 94 | 23.8 | 273 | 69.1 |
Late | 96 | 24.3 | 26 | 6.6 | 122 | 30.9 |
Knowledge of SL | ||||||
Signer | 198 | 50.1 | 87 | 22.0 | 285 | 72.2 |
Non-signer | 74 | 18.7 | 35 | 8.9 | 109 | 27.8 |
Lipreading fluency | ||||||
Fluent | 183 | 46.3 | 91 | 23.0 | 274 | 69.4 |
Non-fluent | 85 | 21.5 | 27 | 6.8 | 112 | 28.4 |
Total | 273 | 68.9 | 122 | 30.8 | 395 | 100 |