Assessment of Quality of Life in Egyptian Children after Cochlear Implant | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Ear, Nose, Throat and Allied Sciences | ||
| Article 34, Volume 22, Issue 22, January 2021, Pages 1-9 PDF (1.08 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejentas.2021.25677.1184 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ebtessam Nada* 1; Shaima Serag Eldin2; . Ibrahim Kabbash3; Mahmoud Mandour4; Amani EI-Gharib5 | ||
| 1Professor of Audio-vestibular medicine, ENT department Faculty of Medicine Zagazig University | ||
| 2Lecturer of Audiology, Phoniatric unit, ENT department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt. | ||
| 3Professor of Public health and community medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt. | ||
| 4Lecturer ORL-HNS, ENT department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt. | ||
| 5Audio vestibular medicine | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Introduction: Cochlear implantation (CI) is gradually growing in Arabic countries and there have only been a few studies about the quality of life (QL) of pediatric patients in this area. Objective: To investigate various aspects of QL in CI pediatric patients using a Parents’ Perspective Questionnaire and to evaluate the significance of such aspects. Patients and Methods: This was a prospective cohort study carried out on a 71 CI pediatric patients. Their age ranged from 4–18 years. Parents were asked to answer the Parents’ Perspective Questionnaire. This questionnaire was designed with 11 subscales and 58 questions in total. All questions were scaled from 1 to 5: (1 strongly agree; 2 agree; 3 neither agree nor disagree; 4 disagree; and 5 strongly disagree). Results: Children implanted at age ≥ 4 year, had better score regarding positive effect of implant, communication, self-confidence and services of implant centers. Similar significant better scores were observed with advance of age of the children. However, younger implanted children had better score regarding communication. Conclusion: CI has positive effect on the quality of life. Patients’ satisfaction is correlated with age of implantation and duration of the implant use. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Children quality of life; Cochlear implant; health related quality of life; quality of life; sensorineural hearing loss | ||
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