Prótese auditiva: satisfação do usuário com sua prótese e com seu meio ambiente
Hearing aid: user satisfaction with their hearing aid and with their environment
Cleide Fernandes Teixeira, Lia Giraldo da silva Augusto, silvio da silva Caldas neto
Resumo
Objetivo: avaliar o nível de satisfação dos usuários com sua prótese auditiva e com seu meio ambiente.
Métodos: estudo descritivo de corte transversal, com 256 indivíduos (m= 48,33%; f= 51,67%), com idade média de 50 anos, recém protetizados, com perda auditiva do tipo sensorioneural (n= 268) e mista (n=32), através do questionário de auto-avaliação International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids - IOI-HA para determinar o grau do benefício e a satisfação dada pela amplificação sonora.
Resultados: para 68% o uso da prótese melhorou a qualidade de vida, evidenciado pela alta pontuação (média=26,45). A relação do usuário com sua prótese foi significativamente melhor (p<0,001*) do que com o meio ambiente. Na avaliação subjetiva dos problemas auditivos, 78,5% referiram ter problemas de grau leve a moderado e 21,5% de grau moderadamente severo a severo.
Conclusão: o IOI-HA é uma ferramenta, simples, fácil de aplicar além de servir como um instrumento facilitador durante o período de aclimatização com a prótese. A melhora na qualidade de vida foi mais referida pelos homens principalmente em relação ao nível de satisfação com a prótese e a diminuição do impacto da deficiência nos outros. O nível de dificuldades dos problemas subjetivos referenciados na vida diária foi mais útil do que as informações objetivas ilustrada no audiograma. A análise mostrou forte associação entre a percepção do individuo com o grau de sua perda auditiva. Indivíduos com percepção de perda auditiva de grau moderadamente severo ou severo mostram maior restrição de participação em suas vidas.
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Abstract
Purpose: to evaluate the level of user satisfaction with the hearing aids and with their environment.
Methods: cross study of a group, with 256 subjects (m= 48.33%; f= 51.67%), average age of 50 years, just fitted with their hearing aid, with sensorioneural (n=268) and mixed (n=32) hearing impairment, through the Questionnaire International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids Outcome Inventory - IOI-HA to determine the degree of the benefit and the satisfaction brought by the sound amplification.
Results: for 68% the use of the hearing aids improved their quality of life, revealed by their high punctuation (mean= 26.45). The relationship of the user with its hearing aid was significantly better (p<0.001*) than that related to the environment. In the subjective evaluation of the auditory problems, 78.5% have stated to have auditory problem of light to moderate degree and 21.5% problems of moderately severe to severe.
Conclusion: the IOI-HA is a tool, simple and easy to apply and it is used as an instrument in helping us during the period of acclimatization with the hearing aid. The improvement in the quality of life of the men that were most referred was about the satisfaction level with the hearing aid and with less impact concerning the others. The level of difficulties about the subjective problems referred in the daily life, was more useful than the information revealed in the audiogram. The analysis showed the strong association regarding the self perception with the degree of hearing loss. The subjects with perception of severe or moderately severe auditory loss degree showed more participation restriction in their life.
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Submitted date:
03/22/2007
Accepted date:
02/04/2008
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