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Abstract Introduction Considering the variability of results found in the clinical population using a cochlear implant, researchers in the area have been interested in the inclusion of quality of life measures to subjectively assess the benefits of the implantation. Objective To assess the quality of life of adult users of cochlear implant. Methods A cross-sectional and clinical study in a group of 26 adults of both genders, with mean duration of cochlear implant use of 6.6 years. The Nijmegen Cochlear Implantation Questionnaire and the generic World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire were sent electronically. Results The best assessed domain in the quality of life assessment for the cochlear implantation questionnaire was the social domain, whereas for the quality of life questionnaire it was the psychological domain. The variables, gender, time of cochlear implant use and auditory modality did not influence the results of both questionnaires. Only the variable level of education was correlated with the environment domain of the quality of life questionnaire. The variable telephone speech comprehension was associated with a better perception of quality of life for all the domains of the specific questionnaire and for the self-assessment of quality of life in general. Conclusion From the users' perspective, both questionnaires showed that cochlear implant brought benefits to different aspects related to quality of life.
Resumo Introdução Diante da variabilidade de resultados clínicos encontrada na população usuária de implante coclear, pesquisadores da área têm se interessado pela inclusão de medidas de qualidade de vida para avaliar os benefícios do implante coclear de maneira subjetiva. Objetivo Avaliar a qualidade de vida de adultos usuários de implante coclear. Método Estudo transversal e clínico em um grupo de 26 adultos, de ambos os gêneros, com tempo de uso médio do implante coclear de 6,6 anos. Foram usados o questionário específico Nijmegen de Implantes Cocleares e o questionário genérico World Health Organization Quality of Life, enviados via mídia eletrônica. Resultados O domínio mais bem pontuado na avaliação da qualidade de vida para o questionário Nijmegen foi o social e para o questionário World Health Organization Quality of Life foi o psicológico. As variáveis gênero, tempo de uso do implante coclear e modalidade auditiva não influenciaram os resultados dos questionários. Apenas a variável nível de instrução correlacionou-se com o domínio meio ambiente do questionário sobre qualidade de vida. A variável compreensão de fala ao telefone associou-se a uma melhor percepção da qualidade de vida para todos os domínios do questionário específico e para a autoavaliação da qualidade de vida em geral. Conclusão Na perspectiva dos usuários, o implante coclear trouxe benefícios para os diversos aspectos relacionados à qualidade de vida em ambos os questionários.
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Humans , Male , Female , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Young Adult , Quality of Life/psychology , Cochlear Implants/psychology , Hearing Loss/rehabilitation , Telephone , Time Factors , Sex Factors , Cross-Sectional Studies , Surveys and Questionnaires , Treatment Outcome , Patient Satisfaction , Cochlear Implantation/psychologyABSTRACT
Introduction Difficulties with telephone use by adult users of cochlear implants (CIs) are reported as a limitation in daily life. Studies to improve the speech understanding of CI users on the telephone are scarce in the Brazilian scientific literature. Objective To develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a training program of auditory abilities on the telephone for an adult CI user. Resumed Report The subject was a 55-year-old woman with a degree in accounting who used a CI for 24 months. The program consisted of three stages: pretraining evaluation, eight sessions of advanced auditory abilities training, and post-training evaluation. Auditory abilities with CI were evaluated before and after training in three conditions: sound field, telephone with the speech processor in the microphone function, and telephone with the speech processor in the telecoil function. Speech recognition was assessed by three different lists: one with monosyllabic and dissyllabic words, another with nonsense syllables, and another one with sentences. The Client Oriented Scale of Improvement (COSI) was used to assess whether the needs established by the CI user in everyday telephone use situations improved after training. The auditory abilities training resulted in a relevant improvement in the percentage of correct answers in speech tests both in the telephone use conditions and in the sound field condition. Conclusion The results obtained with the COSI inventory indicated a performance improvement in all situations presented at the beginning of the program.
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Humans , Female , Middle Aged , Cochlear Implantation , Communication , Telephone , MentoringABSTRACT
OBJETIVO: analisar a aquisição de vocábulos em um grupo de crianças usuárias de implante coclear, na fase inicial do desenvolvimento da língua oral. MÉTODOS: estudo do tipo clínico, prospectivo e longitudinal. Participaram cinco mães de crianças usuárias de implante coclear. As mães assinalaram os vocábulos produzidos espontaneamente pelas crianças, em situação natural, na Lista de Avaliação de Vocabulário Expressivo, adaptado do Language Development Survey. Esse instrumento foi administrado uma vez por mês, totalizando seis momentos por criança. Utilizou-se o teste-t pareado para realizar as comparações entre os momentos. RESULTADOS: a média dos vocábulos produzidos espontaneamente pelo grupo de crianças do primeiro para o sexto momento aumentou gradativamente: de 38,0 para 58,8 vocábulos. Houve diferença significante no número de vocábulos produzidos entre os Momento 1 e Momento 5 (p=0,016) e, entre Momento 1 e Momento 6 (p=0,010). As categorias mais produzidas pelas crianças foram: outros, pessoas, modificadores e ações. E, as categorias que mais se expandiram no período foram modificadores, partes de corpo e outros. CONCLUSÕES: o grupo de crianças usuárias de implante coclear que participaram deste estudo apresentou um aumento gradativo do número de vocábulos produzidos espontaneamente (principalmente outro, modificadores, pessoas e ações), num período de seis meses, sendo significativo após o quinto mês da intervenção fonoaudiológica e, conforme aumentou o tempo do programa de intervenção, o número de vocábulos aumentou com maior significância. Sugere-se aos fonoaudiólogos que administrem o formulário num intervalo de seis meses, por ser o ideal para ...
PURPOSE: to analyze word acquisition in early oral language development of a group of children with cochlear implants. METHODS: this consisted on a clinical, prospective and longitudinal study. Five mothers of children with cochlear implants participated. The mothers reported the words that were spontaneously produced by their children. The Language Development Survey adapted to Brazilian Portuguese was administered once a month, totaling six moments per child. The paired t-test was used on the longitudinal data analysis. RESULTS: the mean number of words spontaneously produced by the group of children gradually increased from the first to the sixth month: 38 to 58.8 words. There were significant differences in the number of words produced on Moment 1 and Moment 5 (p = 0.016) and between Moment 1 and Moment 6 (p = 0.010). The categories with the greatest number of words produced by children were other, people, modifiers and actions. The categories with the greatest increase were modifiers, body parts and other. CONCLUSIONS: the group of children with cochlear implants showed a gradual increase in the number of words spontaneously (mainly other, modifiers, people and actions) produced over a period of six months, being significant after the fifth month of Speech-Language therapy. The number of words produced increased with higher significance with longer intervention periods. It is suggested that Speech-Language Pathologists apply the formulary on a six-month interval as this is an ideal period to evidence lexical acquisition. .