Open AccessEffect of Hearing Aids on Psychosocial Dysfunctioning
Author(s) -
Ashima Nehra,
S. B. S. Mann,
Sugandhi Sharma,
SK Verma
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2231-3796
pISSN - 0973-7707
DOI - 10.1007/bf02991551
Subject(s) - psychosocial , hearing loss , audiology , anxiety , medicine , otorhinolaryngology , population , affect (linguistics) , intervention (counseling) , perception , head and neck surgery , clinical psychology , psychology , psychiatry , environmental health , communication , neuroscience
The perception of communication abilities amongest adolescents with moderate and profound hearing loss was correlated with indices of psychosocial adjustment. This was done to determine whether the use of hearing aids could play a role in presence and improvement of psychosocial functioning among acquired hearing loss persons after the use of hearing aids. Amongest the deaf population, it was found that hearing loss did affect the social, the vocational, the personal and subjective well being, after intervention. The control group did not show any corresponding change except that the state anxiety among this group had increased.