نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی دکتری روانشناسی بالینی، عضو هیئت علمی گروه شنواییشناسی، مرکز تحقیقات اسکلتی-عضلانی، دانشکده علوم توانبخشی اهواز، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اهواز، ایران
2 دکتری تخصصی شنواییشناسی، استادیار گروه شنواییشناسی، دانشکده علوم توانبخشی اصفهان، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، ایران
3 دانشجوی دکتری شنواییشناسی، عضو هیئت علمی گروه شنواییشناسی، دانشکده علوم توانبخشی اهواز، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اهواز، ایران
4 دانشجوی دکتری روانشناسی بالینی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شاهد
چکیده
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Background and Aim
Auditory system is one of the most important channels of communication and is the basis for speech communication, perception, and psychologic abilities are based on this system. Any impairment of the auditory system could impair these abilities. The present study was carried out to investigat mental profile of adults with hearing loss.
Materials & Methods
In the current cross-sectional study, we surveyed psychologic information of 40 hearing impaired persons (average age: 27.85 years old) with hearing aid using SCL-90-R questionnaire and compared with 40 normal persons (average age: 27.52 years old). Participants were of both genders and had diploma degree.
Results
We observed significant statistical difference of mental health (psychoticism, phobic anxiety, anxiety, interpersonal sensitivity, somatization, paranoid ideation, hostility, depression, and obsessive-compulsive) between hearing impaired and normal persons (P<0.05).
Conclusion
The present study indicated much more mental health problems in hearing impaired persons compared with that in normal people. These results showed the importance of mental health assessment in the persons with hearing loss in addition to the other routine auditory evaluations.
کلیدواژهها [English]