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KMID : 1035420180060030141
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Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
2018 Volume.6 No. 3 p.141 ~ p.147
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Quality of Life Comparison between Suspicion Hearing Impaired and Hearing Aids Users in Elderly
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Son Byung-Chang
Heo Seung-Deok
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Abstract
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PurPose: Aim of the study This study was conducted to determine whether hearing aids are responsible for the quality of life by comparing quality of life between the elderly who are suspected of difficulty in hearing selected by HHIE without using hearing aids and who are using hearing aids.
Methods: For the study, two groups of 33 people were analyzed for independent t-test based on whether they wore HA or not whom wearing hearing aids(hearing aids users) and suspected difficulty in hearing. who are attending the Religious organization Senior Welfare Center in the OO region.
Results: The quality of life of hearing aid users is generally observed to be higher than that of non-users in general, and by the section, psychological(p=0.019) and living environment (p=0.032) were appeared statistically signigicant. The elderly showed a significant difference. In the section, "Operation Satisfaction(p=0.038)" in the physical health area, "relationship of reason(p=0.018)" in the social relationship area, "Economic margin (p=0.021)" in the environmental area, "Information accessibility(p=0.020)", In the psychological area, hearing aid was used for "self satisfaction (p=0.033)", "concentration of work(p=0.045)"
Conclusions: The use of hearing aids by hearing loss elderly improves the quality of life in the psychological health and living environment section.
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KEYWORD
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Quality of life, presbycusis, hearing aid, hearing handicap inventory (HHI)
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