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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2020; 24(03): e338-e346
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-3399540
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The Outcome of Unilateral Cochlear Implantation in Adults: Speech Recognition, Health-Related Quality of Life and Level of Anxiety and Depression: a One- and Three-Year Follow-Up Study

Pia Bergman 
1   Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Jönköping County hospital, Jönköping, Sweden
2   Division of Neuro and Inflammation Science, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
3   Department of Otorhinolaryngology in Linköping, Anaesthetics, Operations and Specialty Surgery Center, Region Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden
,
Björn Lyxell
4   Department of Special Needs Education, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway
5   Linnaeus Centre HEAD, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
,
Henrik Harder
3   Department of Otorhinolaryngology in Linköping, Anaesthetics, Operations and Specialty Surgery Center, Region Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden
,
Elina Mäki-Torkko
2   Division of Neuro and Inflammation Science, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
3   Department of Otorhinolaryngology in Linköping, Anaesthetics, Operations and Specialty Surgery Center, Region Östergötland, Linköping, Sweden
5   Linnaeus Centre HEAD, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
6   Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
› Author Affiliations Funding The present study was supported by the Swedish Research Council for health, Working Life and Welfare FAS dnr 2010–0761.
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27 March 2019

24 September 2019

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13 December 2019 (online)

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Abstract

Introduction Hearing impairment is a common disease worldwide, with a comprehensive impact, and cochlear implantation (CI) is an intervention for profound hearing impairment.

Objective To study the outcome one and three years after unilateral CI on hearing, health-related quality of life and level of depression and anxiety, and the correlation between the outcomes. Second, to study whether age, gender, etiology, operated side, residual hearing or cognitive performance can predict the outcome.

Methods A prospective longitudinal study including adults with profound postlingual hearing impairment, with respect to hearing (speech recognition), health-related quality of life (Health Utilities Index 3) and level of depression and anxiety (Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale), pre-CI, and one and three years post-CI. The total sample was composed of 40 participants (40% of men), with a mean age of 71 years.

Results Speech recognition and the overall health-related quality of life improved one year post-CI (p = 0.000), without correlation (ρ= 0.27), and with no difference three years post-CI. The hearing attribute (in the health-related quality of life instrument) improved one and three years post-CI (p = 0.000). The level of anxiety did not change one and three years post-CI. The level of depression improved one year post-CI (p = 0.036), and deteriorated three years post-CI (p = 0.031). Age, etiology, operated side, residual hearing and cognitive performance did not predict the outcome, but the female gender did significantly improve speech recognition compared with men (p = 0.009).

Conclusion The CI significantly improved speech recognition, health-related quality of life and level of depression one year post-CI without mutual correlation, and women performed significantly better than men. There were no further improvements three years post-CI, apart from the hearing attribute.

Keywords

health-related quality of life - cognition - cochlear implantation - anxiety - depression
 

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