Assessment of the psychosocial impacts of cochlear implants on adult recipients and their partners

Chen, Stephen; Karamy, Babak; Shipp, David; Nedzelski, Julian M.; Chen, Joseph; Lin, Vincent

doi:10.1080/14670100.2015.1102456

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“…Prior work by Wiley and Meinzen-Derr found that children with married parents were 5.7 times more likely to be referred for CI evaluation as compared to children without married parents, even after controlling for a host of factors including degree of hearing loss, insurance status, and gender. 16 Of course, improvement in psychosocial measures have been demonstrated for adult cochlear implant recipients and their spouses, 17 and cochlear implantation surgery requires extensive follow up and hearing rehabilitation, making spousal support a potentially vital component for pursuing surgery and ultimate success. 18 This finding deserves additional study for the role of marital status on the decision to pursue cochlear implantation surgery in adults.…”

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Identifying Disadvantaged Groups for Cochlear Implantation: Demographics from a Large Cochlear Implant Program

Tolisano

Schauwecker

Baumgart

et al. 2019

Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol

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Objective: To identify demographic predictors of patients undergoing cochlear implantation evaluation and surgery. Methods: Consecutive adult patients between 2009 and 2018 who underwent cochlear implantation evaluation at a university cochlear implantation program were retrospectively identified to determine (1) cochlear implantation qualification rate and (2) pursuit of surgery rate with respect to age, gender, race, primary spoken language, marital status, insurance type, and distance to the cochlear implantation center. Results: A total of 823 cochlear implantation evaluations were analyzed. Overall, 76.3% of patients qualified for cochlear implantation and 61.5% of these patients pursued surgery. Age was the only independent predictor for cochlear implantation qualification, such that, for each year younger, the odds of qualifying for cochlear implantation increased by 2.5% (OR 0.98; 95% CI: 0.96-0.99). Age, race, marital status, and insurance type were each independent predictors of the decision to pursue surgery. The odds of pursuing surgery increased by 2.8% for each year younger (OR 1.03; 95% CI: 1.01-1.05). Compared to White patients, non-Whites were half as likely to pursue surgery (OR 0.47; 95% CI: 0.25-0.88). Single (OR 0.49; 95% CI: 0.26-0.94) and widowed patients (OR 0.46; 95% CI: 0.23-0.95) were about half as likely to pursue surgery as compared to married patients. Patients with military insurance were 13 times more likely to pursue surgery as compared to patients with Medicare (OR 13.0; 95% CI: 1.67-101.4). Conclusion: Younger age is an independent predictor for a higher cochlear implantation qualification rate, suggesting the possibility for delayed candidacy referral. Rate of surgical pursuit in qualified cochlear implantation candidates is lower for racial minorities, single and widowed patients, and older patients.

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Identifying Disadvantaged Groups for Cochlear Implantation: Demographics from a Large Cochlear Implant Program

Tolisano

Schauwecker

Baumgart

et al. 2019

Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol

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“…Furthermore, expectations about the success of implantation may be partly related to psychosocial health . If their hearing ability after cochlear implantation was even better than expected, then their new situation with CIs and a relatively good hearing ability might be regarded as very satisfactory . For some adults, CI serves as a way to “coming back to life.”…”

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confidence: 99%

Psychosocial health of cochlear implant users compared to that of adults with and without hearing aids: Results of a nationwide cohort study

Bosdriesz

Stam

Smits

et al. 2018

Clinical Otolaryngology

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Psychosocial health of CI users is not worse than that of hearing-impaired adults with or without hearing aids. CI users' level of emotional loneliness is even lower than that of their hearing-impaired peers using hearing aids. A possible explanation is that CI patients receive more professional and family support, and guidance along their patient journey than adults who are fitted with hearing aids.

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“…[28] Similarly, adult cochlear implantation not only results in enhanced auditory and speech perception abilities, but is also proven to have a positive impact on adult CI recipients' social functioning, self-esteem and educational and vocational opportunities. [29][30][31][32][33] The history of cochlear implantation internationally On 9 January 1961, Dr William F. House (otologist) and Dr John Doyle (neurosurgeon) performed the first true CI surgery by inserting a single-channel electrode inside the cochlea through the round window. [34] Following the Food and Drug Administation (FDA)'s first approval of the single-channel implant for adults in 1984, [35] remarkable and rapid improvements to CIs were made.…”

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Cochlear implantation in South Africa (part 1)

Bhamjee

Mahomed-Asmail

Perold

et al. 2021

SAMJ

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Cochlear implantation is a timeous and cost-effective solution for severe-profound sensorineural hearing loss, and has transformed the lives of many individuals with significant hearing loss. The advent of cochlear implantation has meant that, for the first time, one of the senses (hearing), having been entirely lost, can be restored. This, the first of a two-part series on cochlear implantation in South Africa (SA) puts global (and especially SA) hearing loss in perspective, sets out the principles of cochlear implantation and briefly sketches the history of this world-changing technology.

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Assessment of the psychosocial impacts of cochlear implants on adult recipients and their partners

Abstract: Overall, CI use has been shown to have significant benefit to psychosocial well-being of CI recipients. This benefit is also conferred to their caregivers/partners; which in our society concerned about caregiver burden is quite important to recognize.

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

Identifying Disadvantaged Groups for Cochlear Implantation: Demographics from a Large Cochlear Implant Program

Identifying Disadvantaged Groups for Cochlear Implantation: Demographics from a Large Cochlear Implant Program

Psychosocial health of cochlear implant users compared to that of adults with and without hearing aids: Results of a nationwide cohort study

Cochlear implantation in South Africa (part 1)

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