Hearing-related, health-related quality of life in patients who have undergone otosclerosis surgery: A long-term follow-up study

Redfors, Ylva Dahlin; Olaison, Sara; Karlsson, Jan; Hellgren, Johan; Möller, Claes

doi:10.3109/14992027.2014.948220

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“…Epidemiologic studies evidence significant correlations between depression and hearing status and even more so with self-reported functional hearing ( 50 ), while mental health in general is found to correlate significantly with hearing in younger and older age groups ( 16 ). Also, in a 30 year follow-up report on otosclerosis patients with stapedectomy and some of them using hearing aids, mental well-being as assessed by the SF36 questionnaire correlated significantly with all three scales of the SSQ but not with hearing sensitivity ( 51 ).…”

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Patient Benefit Following Bimodal CI-provision: Self-reported Abilities vs. Hearing Status

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Objectives: Patient-reported outcomes gain importance for the assessment of auditory abilities in cochlear implant users and for the evaluation of auditory rehabilitation. Aims of the study were to explore the interrelation of self-reported improvements in auditory ability with improvements in speech comprehension and to identify factors other than audiological improvement that affect self-reported auditory ability.Study Design: Explorative prospective analysis using a within-subjects repeated measures design.Setting: Academic tertiary care center.Participants: Twenty-seven adult participants with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss who received a HiRes 90K CI and continued use of a HA at the non-implanted ear (bimodal hearing).Intervention: Cochlear implantation.Main Outcome Measures: Self-reported auditory ability/disability assessed by the comparative version of the Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ-B), and monosyllable as well as sentence comprehension in quiet and within speech modulated noise from different directions assessed pre- as well as 3 and 6 months post-implantation.Results: Data of 17 individuals were analyzed. At the endpoint of the study, improvement of self-reported auditory ability was significant. Regarding audiometric measures, significant improvement was seen for CI-aided pure tone thresholds, for monaural CI-assisted and bimodal sentence comprehension in quiet and in speech-modulated noise that was presented from the same source or at the side of the HA-ear. Correlations between self-reported and audiometric improvements remained weak, with the exception of the improvement seen for monaural CI-aided sentence comprehension in quiet and self-perceived improvement of sound quality. Considerable correlations existed between self-reported improvements and current level of depression and anxiety, and with general self-efficaciousness. Regression analyses substantiated a positive influence of self-efficaciousness on self-reported improvement in speech comprehension and between the improvement of monaural CI-aided sentence comprehension in quiet and perceived sound quality as well as a negative influence of anxiety on self-reported improvement in spatial hearing. Self-reported improvements were significantly better in the subgroup with intensive as compared to regular rehabilitation.Conclusions: Self-reported auditory ability/disability represents an important measure for the success of bimodal CI-provision. It is influenced by personal and mental health factors that may improve CI-rehabilitation results if addressed during rehabilitation.

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Patient Benefit Following Bimodal CI-provision: Self-reported Abilities vs. Hearing Status

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“…Both studies show that primary stapes surgery is associated with an improvement in health-related quality of life measured by generic and hearing-specific questionnaires. Correlation analyses of hearing ability and quality of life measurements show that the degree of postoperative air-bone gap, change in air-bone gap and tinnitus do not correlate with any of the scores from these generic quality of life questionnaires and hearing-specific quality of life questionnaires 5 6. Furthermore, patient-reported hearing disability correlates better with health-related quality of life than with audiometric results 5 6.…”

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“…Correlation analyses of hearing ability and quality of life measurements show that the degree of postoperative air-bone gap, change in air-bone gap and tinnitus do not correlate with any of the scores from these generic quality of life questionnaires and hearing-specific quality of life questionnaires 5 6. Furthermore, patient-reported hearing disability correlates better with health-related quality of life than with audiometric results 5 6. The latter emphasises the need for patient-reported outcome measures in determining surgical success in patients with otosclerosis.…”

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“…Surgeons generally assume that these outcomes reflect the patient’s subjective improvement and health-related quality of life, that is, an individual’s perception of how an illness and its treatment affect the physical, mental and social aspects of his or her life 4. However, studies show that audiometric results do not correlate well with health-related quality of life in patients with otosclerosis after stapes surgery 5 6. Both studies show that primary stapes surgery is associated with an improvement in health-related quality of life measured by generic and hearing-specific questionnaires.…”

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Protocol for a validation study of the translated stapesplasty outcome test 25 for measurement of disease-specific quality of life in Dutch patients with otosclerosis

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IntroductionOtosclerosis is a common cause of acquired conductive hearing loss and can be treated using hearing aids or surgically. Surgical success rates or surgical results are usually reported using pure-tone audiometric thresholds and/or speech discrimination scores. Audiometric results and patient-reported quality of life after stapes surgery do not seem to correlate well. It is therefore our opinion that health-related quality of life measurements should be implemented as an additional outcome measure after stapes surgery. So far, there is a lack of a valid, reliable and clinically feasible measuring tool for determining health-related quality of life in Dutch patients with otosclerosis who undergo stapes surgery.Methods and analysisA prospective validation study was designed to translate and validate the disease-specific Stapesplasty Outcome Test 25 (SPOT-25) in a population of Dutch patients with otosclerosis who undergo primary stapes surgery. A total of 125 patients with otosclerosis who will be undergoing primary stapes surgery and 50 healthy controls will be included. The patients with otosclerosis will fulfil several questionnaires preoperatively, 6 to 8 weeks postoperatively and 8 to 10 weeks postoperatively with a 2-week interval between the postoperative administrations. The patients’ audiometric results, which are measured routinely before and after undergoing primary stapes surgery, will also be used. The healthy controls will fulfil the translated SPOT-25 once. First, the original SPOT-25 will be translated from German to Dutch in a six-step process. Second, the translated SPOT-25 will be pilot-tested in a subset of patients. Lastly, validity, reliability and responsiveness of the translated SPOT-25 will be analysed.Ethics and disseminationThe research protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University Medical Center Utrecht (protocol 18–768/C; V.1, November 2018). Initially, we planned to include 50 patients. At a later stage we decided to increase the sample size to 100 patients. We notified the Institutional Review Board of this change to the protocol. The trial results will be disseminated through peer-reviewed medical journals and presented at scientific conferences.Trial registration numberNL7586.

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“…Ramsay ve ark. (16) ise postoperatif işitmede iyileşme sağlamalarına rağmen %52 hastada ameliyat öncesi döneme göre daha az rahatsız edici, %11 hastada da daha fazla rahatsız edici olarak tinnitusun devam ettiğini belirtmişlerdir (17,18). Aarnisalo ve ark.…”

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Hearing-related, health-related quality of life in patients who have undergone otosclerosis surgery: A long-term follow-up study

Abstract: This study shows that individuals with otosclerosis, 30 years after surgery, have a good generic health-related quality of life, despite moderate to severe hearing loss and significant hearing disabilities.

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Patient Benefit Following Bimodal CI-provision: Self-reported Abilities vs. Hearing Status

Patient Benefit Following Bimodal CI-provision: Self-reported Abilities vs. Hearing Status

Protocol for a validation study of the translated stapesplasty outcome test 25 for measurement of disease-specific quality of life in Dutch patients with otosclerosis

Results of Stapes Surgery in Our Clinic

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