Hearing Loss in Paranoid and Affective Psychoses of the Elderly

Sensory deficits and mental disorders of old age: causal or coincidental associations?

“…In the second instance, as noted by Kay & Roth (1961) and further elaborated by Cooper et al (1974 and by Cooper & Porter (1976), the prevalence of longstanding sensory deficits does appear to be more common in series of cases with paranoid disorders of late life onset than in contrast series of patients with other diagnoses. However, these authors have described sensory deficits as one among many potential risk factors and have suggested that the mechanism is one of reinforcing a pre-existing tendency to social isolation or withdrawal.…”

A Review of Self-esteem of the Hearing Impaired Football Players

“…In fact; it is reported that those who are subjected to hearing loss in old age suffer from paranoid psychosis more than the normal population [35] [36]. Most of the widespread epidemiological studies undertaken lately support -especially-the correlation between audio visual perception disorders and psychiatric disorders [7] [19] [45]. Karademir (2012) states that hearing impaired individuals have a special culture and language.…”

Level of Paranoia Among Types of Hearing Impairment in Patients at Tertiary Care Ent Clinic

“…There was a significant difference on paranoia at the p<.05 level for the three conditions [F(2, 100) = 3.105, p = 0.049]. Post hoc comparisons using the Tukey HSD test indicated that the mean score for the CHL (M = 45.71, SD = 23.67) was significantly different than both SNHL (M = 36.31, SD = 13.66) and MHL (M = 37.00, SD = 9.00) conditions as shown on [14] (1974) and Stein and Thienhaus [15] (1993) studies and against the hypothesis which described earlier that there is no association of level of paranoia regards to its types. Furthermore, this result shows positive relationship between level of paranoia and development of HI before the age of 45 years, higher degree of urbanization, unemployment may relate to social isolation and feeling of loneliness and this may predict social deafferentiation.…”

“…conductive, sensorineural or mixed) of hearing impairment and association with the development of psychosis. Cooper et al (1974) was the first to describe a significantly higher level of paranoid psychosis in patients with conductive hearing loss than patients with affective illness. [14] Other than this, it's just only two other studies have used a similar approach, by comparing the type of hearing impairment.…”

“…Cooper et al (1974) was the first to describe a significantly higher level of paranoid psychosis in patients with conductive hearing loss than patients with affective illness. [14] Other than this, it's just only two other studies have used a similar approach, by comparing the type of hearing impairment. Stein & Thienhaus (1993) found similar results to those of Cooper but with very small sample sizes [15], where as Cole et al (2002) study was to differentiate psychotic feature i-e auditory hallucination in conductive and sensorineural hearing impairments in the left and right ear but found no significant difference between groups.…”