The following is an abstract of a study published in the Italian otorhinolaryngology journal Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica (Volume 28, issue 2, April 2008). The full article or a subscription to the journal can be found at www.actaitalica.it/.
In this study, an assessment was made of the global assumption that working adults with a mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss experience more negative emotional reactions and socio-situational limitations than subjects with no hearing problems and that a deterioration of health-related quality of life on these specific domains would occur. Comparisons between 73 hearing-impaired subjects and 96 controls, well-matched for socio-demographic variables, were performed using the HHIA, MOS 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and SFQ questionnaires scores and revealed that the former experience a higher level of perceived hearing handicap and a deterioration of health-related quality of life while investigating emotional and socio-situational domains than the latter (p
Source: Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica
New Study Finds Adults with Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss Prone to Depression, Anxiety and Other Psychological Distress
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