Social hearing measured with the Performance Inventory for Profound and Severe Loss: a comparison between adult multichannel cochlear implant patients and users of acoustical hearing aids

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate social hearing in successful users of multichannel cochlear implants (CIs) and to compare the scores with those of a group of hearing-impaired adults using acoustical hearing aids (HAs). Out of 88 patients who had undergone surgery, 75 CI users with a mean age of 55 years and a mean pre-operative hearing level of 113dB in the better ear were compared with 59 users of acoustical HAs with a mean age of 56 years and a mean hearing level of 82dB in the better ear. Seven CI patients were non-users and were excluded from the study. The Performance Inventory for Profound and Severe Loss, a questionnaire that measures different aspects of hearing handicap, was used. The CI group scored significantly better than the HA group in three of six evaluated categories, measuring subjective intensity of sounds, speech with visual cues, and response to auditory failure. Awareness of environmental sounds, speech with no visual cues and personal reactions did not differ significantly. The group of successful CI users scored higher on a self-report measure than did a group of users of acoustical HAs with moderate- severe-profound deafness. The best CI users scored better than the best HA users, and the worst CI users scored worse than the worst HA users.

Oral communication and auditory skills of hearing impaired children and adolescents and the speech therapy rehabilitation process

“…It may be observed, therefore, that profound hearing loss was not a limiting aspect in obtaining the results in hearing and spoken language. These findings corroborate the study which states that the use of the cochlear implant can allow access to speech sounds for profound hearingimpaired children 33 .…”

Three-Year Postimplantation Auditory Outcomes in Children with Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implantation

“…[10][11][12][13][14] Moreover, unilateral cochlear implantation has resulted in an improvement in quality of life after implantation for all cochlear implant (CI) users, both young and old. [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] However, their ability to understand speech in noisy environments and to localize sounds remains poor. This reduced speech recognition in noise is a significant problem, especially for young children who attend mainstream schools, in which the level of noise in a classroom may range from 34 to 73 dBA.…”

Surdez pós-lingual: benefícios do implante coclear versus prótese auditiva convencional

“…Eleven out of the 2,169 papers searched were found to be pertinent to the topic and were rated B for evidence strength (four were rated 2b 1,7-9 and seven 2c [2][3][4][5][6]10,11 ). No Arated publications were found.…”

“…It has been found that cochlear implants allow for improvements in speech understanding and on qualityof-life, aside from significantly easing one's insertion into the social and professional worlds and reducing the onset of depression and feelings of loneliness 1,3,4,[6][7][8]10 . Shorter hearing deprivation time has been singled out as a factor connected to better outcomes 4,6 .…”

“…That is why cochlear implant indications have been extended to include an ever larger population 1 . Several studies have been published within the last few years comparing the hearing outcomes obtained by severe and profound hearing loss patients using conventional hearing aids or cochlear implants 3 . This paper aims to look into the groups of post-lingual deafness patients to find where cochlear implants have yielded better outcomes than conventional hearing aids, having papers published in the literature as reference.…”