ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2017
In Patients Undergoing Cochlear Implantation, Psychological Burden Affects Tinnitus and the Overall Outcome of Auditory Rehabilitation.
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- Personalizing Auditory Training: Understanding Individual Factors in Adult Cochlear Implant Users.Seminars in hearing · 2025Review
- Illness perceptions in cochlear implant users - a longitudinal study.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025Article
- The Long-Term Effect of Cochlear Implantation on Tinnitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Influence of depressive disorders, stress, and personality traits on quality of life after cochlear implantation.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024Article
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- Tinnitus and Influencing Comorbidities.Laryngo- rhino- otologie · 2023Review
- Assessment of Behavioral Problems in Children Pre- and Post-Cochlear Implant: An Egyptian Study.Psychiatry investigation · 2022Article
- Influence of tinnitus annoyance on hearing-related quality of life in cochlear implant recipients.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Cognition and Cognitive Reserve in Cochlear Implant Recipients.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Too Blind to See the Elephant? Why Neuroscientists Ought to Be Interested in Tinnitus.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2021Review
- Improvement of Working Memory and Processing Speed in Patients over 70 with Bilateral Hearing Impairment Following Unilateral Cochlear Implantation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Sensory Dysfunction in Old Age.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2021Article
- Single-centre experience and practical considerations of the benefit of a second cochlear implant in bilaterally deaf adults.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cochlear implantation (CI) is increasingly being used in the auditory rehabilitation of deaf patients. Here, we investigated whether the auditory rehabilitation can be influenced by the psychological burden caused by mental conditions. Our sample included 47 patients who underwent implantation. All patients were monitored before and 6 months after CI. Auditory performance was assessed using the Oldenburg Inventory (OI) and Freiburg monosyllable (FB MS) speech discrimination test. The health-related quality of life was measured with Nijmegen Cochlear implantation Questionnaire (NCIQ) whereas tinnitus-related distress was measured with the German version of Tinnitus Questionnaire (TQ). We additionally assessed the general perceived quality of life, the perceived stress, coping abilities, anxiety levels and the depressive symptoms. Finally, a structured interview to detect mental conditions (CIDI) was performed before and after surgery. We found that CI led to an overall improvement in auditory performance as well as the anxiety and depression, quality of life, tinnitus distress and coping strategies. CIDI revealed that 81% of patients in our sample had affective, anxiety, and/or somatoform disorders before or after CI. The affective disorders included dysthymia and depression, while anxiety disorders included agoraphobias and unspecified phobias. We also diagnosed cases of somatoform pain disorders and unrecognizable figure somatoform disorders. We found a positive correlation between the auditory performance and the decrease of anxiety and depression, tinnitus-related distress and perceived stress. There was no association between the presence of a mental condition itself and the outcome of auditory rehabilitation. We conclude that the CI candidates exhibit high rates of psychological disorders, and there is a particularly strong association between somatoform disorders and tinnitus. The presence of mental disorders remained unaffected by CI but the degree of psychological burden decreased significantly post-CI. The implants benefitted patients in a number of psychosocial areas, improving the symptoms of depression and anxiety, tinnitus, and their quality of life and coping strategies. The prevalence of mental disorders in patients who are candidates for CI suggests the need for a comprehensive psychological and psychosomatic management of their treatment.
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