| Quality of life improvement for bone-anchored hearing aid users and their partners. | |
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PMID: 21443817 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Objectives:Bone-anchored hearing aid recipients experience well documented improvements in their audiometric performance and quality of life. While hearing aid recipients may understate their functional improvement, their partners may be more aware of such improvement. We sought to investigate patients' partners' perceptions of functional improvement following bone-anchored hearing aid fitting.Methods:Surveys were sent to 153 patients who had received a bone-anchored hearing aid through the Nova Scotia bone-anchored hearing aid programme. The validated survey asked patients' partners to give their subjective impression of the bone-anchored hearing aid recipient's functional status.Results and conclusions:Surveys were completed by 90 patients (58.8 per cent), of whom 72 reported having a partner. Partners reported a significant improvement in hearing (p ≤ 0.0001). Partners reported improvement in 87.0 per cent of functional scenarios, no change in 12.6 per cent, and a decline in 0.4 per cent. These findings demonstrate a significant improvement in the emotional and social effects of hearing impairment, as perceived by bone-anchored hearing aid recipients' partners. |
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M L McNeil; M Gulliver; D P Morris; M Bance |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-3-29 |
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Title: The Journal of laryngology and otology Volume: - ISSN: 1748-5460 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Mar |
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Created Date: 2011-3-29 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8706896 Medline TA: J Laryngol Otol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 1-7 Citation Subset: - |
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Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. |
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