The Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults

Newman, Craig W.; Weinstein, Barbara E.; Jacobson, Gary P.; Hug, Gerald A.

doi:10.1097/00003446-199012000-00004

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“…The Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults assesses the emotional and social consequences of hearing loss [33]. Patients should also be asked to provide detailed information about their blast exposure, such as the nature of the blast, the proximity to the blast, the use of hearing protection, and the loss of consciousness at the time of injury.…”

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Auditory and vestibular dysfunction associated with blast-related traumatic brain injury

Fausti¹,

Wilmington²,

Gallun³

et al. 2009

JRRD

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Abstract-The dramatic escalation of blast exposure in military deployments has created an unprecedented amount of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and associated auditory impairment. Auditory dysfunction has become the most prevalent individual service-connected disability, with compensation totaling more than 1 billion dollars annually. Impairment due to blast can include peripheral hearing loss, central auditory processing deficits, vestibular impairment, and tinnitus. These deficits are particularly challenging in the TBI population, as symptoms can be mistaken for posttraumatic stress disorder, mentalhealth issues, and cognitive deficits. In addition, comorbid factors such as attention, cognition, neuronal loss, noise toxicity, etc., can confound assessment, causing misdiagnosis. Furthermore, some auditory impairments, such as sensorineural hearing loss, will continue to progress with age, unlike many other injuries. In the TBI population, significant clinical challenges are the accurate differentiation of auditory and vestibular impairments from multiple, many times overlapping, symptoms and the development of multidisciplinary rehabilitation strategies to improve treatment outcomes and quality of life for these patients.

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Section: Auditory Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Auditory and vestibular dysfunction associated with blast-related traumatic brain injury

Fausti¹,

Wilmington²,

Gallun³

et al. 2009

JRRD

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117

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“…There is now an increased need to understand disability from the perspective of the more holistic ICF classification of disability rather than the traditional pathology-based understanding. Several studies have focussed on this shift in understanding HI from a social and emotional functioning perspective (Newman et al, 1990(Newman et al, , 1991Aiello et al, 2011). The tool used for this study was HHIA which has been validated and utilised in several earlier studies (Monzani et al, 2007;Aiello et al, 2011), and has good correlates with audiometric tests which establish its reliability for use in this study (Newman et al, 1990).…”

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“…Two questions as replacement questions from HHIE focus on occupational effects of hearing loss (Monzani et al, 2007). The questionnaire is validated and used in numerous studies (Newman et al, 1990(Newman et al, , 1991 after translation into various languages (Monzani et al, 2007;Aiello et al, 2011) where it was proven reliable and valid. The questions had a total score of 100, with social and emotional aspects having the sub-total scores of 48 and 52 respectively.…”

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“…Moreover, since there are very few /no studies which have tried to quantify the prevalence of hearing impairment based on the ICF classification of disability, it has limited the understanding of how the ICF approach may be applied and its demarcation from the traditional physiological/ pathological based audiometric idea of HI. However, several studies have tried to measure the social and emotional functioning and psychosocial aspects of hearing impairment (Newman et al, 1990;Espmark et al, 2002) which are very close to the ICF perspective of disability. The study by Espmark et al (2002) in Sweden showed high correlations between hearing impairment and psychosocial consequences, projecting the importance of looking at HI from the psycho-social perspective.…”

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“…The study by Espmark et al (2002) in Sweden showed high correlations between hearing impairment and psychosocial consequences, projecting the importance of looking at HI from the psycho-social perspective. Newman et al (1990) developed and validated a questionnaire "Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults" (HHIA) which measured HI by taking social and emotional functioning of the individual into consideration. This questionnaire was translated into several languages like Italian and Brazilian Portuguese, and was tested for validity and reliability against the standard audiometric tests.…”

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The Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid

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Spath²,

Krabbe

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To assess the impact of a bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) on the quality of life (QOL) of adults and to test the hypothesis that a BAHA improves QOL because otorrhea and/or skin irritations decrease.Design: Prospective postal-based questionnaire study using validated health-related QOL instruments, combined with hearing-aid-related questions.Patients and Methods: The study included 56 consecutive adult patients with acquired conductive or mixed hearing loss who were scheduled for BAHA implantation at the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. All 56 patients completed the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D), and the Hearing Handicap and Disability Inventory (HHDI); 36 patients had been using an airconduction hearing aid (ACHA) and 20 patients a conventional bone-conduction hearing aid (CBHA). Questionnaires were filled out before surgery and after 6 months of experience with the BAHA.Results: In the SF-36 group, there was significant improvement in the scores of the mental health domain (P = .02). When the SF-36 patients were classified according to previous hearing aid, there was no statistically significant change in the scores in any of the domains. In the EQ-5D group and in its ACHA and CBHA subgroups, there were no important differences in the results before and after the patients received their BAHAs. In the HHDI group, the handicap and disability scales showed significant improvement (PϽ.01) irrespective of the type of previously worn hearing aid.Conclusions: Overall, generic health-related QOL was not influenced significantly by the use of a BAHA according to the SF-36 and the EQ-5D. The more disease-specific scales (HHDI) did show improved QOL with a BAHA.

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The Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults

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