ArticleBMC psychiatry2023
Deaf and hard-of-hearing children and adolescents' mental health, Quality of Life and communication.
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- Psychological well-being and mental health risks in deaf and hard of hearing youth: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers to belonging: an ecological and appraisal framework for peer relationships, self-awareness, and confidence in deaf and hard of hearing.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Depression and associated factors among primary school adolescents with hearing impairment in Kampala district, Uganda: A cross-sectional study.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- The effect of metalinguistic awareness on bilingual vocabulary knowledge in Chinese deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Communication Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss: A Comparison of Two Early Intervention Approaches.Audiology research · 2025Article
- Unheard Struggles: Exploring Health-Related Quality of Life Determinants and Coping Mechanisms Among Children with Hearing Loss from Parents and Caregivers Perspective.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Article
- Mental health services for the deaf: an exploratory study of the aetiology, sources of information, and access to mental health services among deaf persons in Ghana.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Global, regional, and national burden of hearing loss in children and adolescents, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.BMC public health · 2024Article
- A Virtual Reality Platform for Evaluating Deficits in Executive Functions in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children-Relation to Daily Function and to Quality of Life.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Assessment of oral health status and quality of life in hearing-impaired children from Syria.BDJ open · 2024Article
- Psychological burden of hearing-impaired children and their parents through the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Mental health problems and lower Quality of Life (QoL) are more common in deaf and hard-of-hearing - (D)HH - children than in typically hearing (TH) children. Communication has been repeatedly linked to both mental health and QoL. The aims of this study were to compare mental health and QoL between signing deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH), hard-of-hearing (HH) and TH children and to study associations between mental health/QoL and severity of hearing loss and communication. 106 children and adolescents (mean age 11;8; SD = 3.42), 59 of them DHH and 47 HH, and their parents reported child mental health and QoL outcomes. Parents also provided information about their children's communication, hearing loss and education while their children's cognitive ability was assessed. Although (D)HH and their parents rated their mental health similar to their TH peers, about twice as many (D)HH children rated themselves in the clinical range. However, (D)HH children rated their QoL as similar to their TH peers, while their parents rated it significantly lower. Associations between communicative competence, parent-reported mental health and QoL were found, whereas severity of hearing loss based on parent-report had no significant association with either mental health or QoL. These results are in line with other studies and emphasise the need to follow up on (D)HH children's mental health, QoL and communication.
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