Psychosocial impacts in adult hearing-impaired and their spouses

Background and purpose of study: Spouse is the closest family member to the hearing-impaired patients and past literature has shown that hearing impairment resulted to poor emotional-wellbeing in both parties. Despite the reports on psychosocial effects in both spouse and patients, little attention...

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Main Authors:	Tengku Zam Zam, Tengku Zulaila Hasma, Dzulkarnain, Ahmad Aidil Arafat, Rahmat, Sarah, Jusoh, Masnira
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	RF Otorhinolaryngology
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/58810/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58810/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58810/1/58810_Psychosocial%20impacts-%20abstract.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/58810/2/58810_Psychosocial%20impacts-poster.pdf

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spelling	iium-588102017-10-27T03:12:33Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/58810/ Psychosocial impacts in adult hearing-impaired and their spouses Tengku Zam Zam, Tengku Zulaila Hasma Dzulkarnain, Ahmad Aidil Arafat Rahmat, Sarah Jusoh, Masnira RF Otorhinolaryngology Background and purpose of study: Spouse is the closest family member to the hearing-impaired patients and past literature has shown that hearing impairment resulted to poor emotional-wellbeing in both parties. Despite the reports on psychosocial effects in both spouse and patients, little attention has been paid to determine the relationship of both (spouse and patient) psychosocial consequences. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the psychosocial impacts of hearing impairment to the hearing-impaired adults and correlation to their spouses’. Methods: Two self-reported questionnaires, Malay Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adult (HHIA-M) and Malay Significant Other Scale for Hearing Disability (SOSHEAR-M) were used to investigate the existence and the relationship of self-perceived disability among adult hearing impaired and their spouses. Twenty-six couples participated in the survey using those two validated questionnaires. Result: SOSHEAR-M score (median=11.06) was significantly higher than HHIA-M score (median=8.00) suggesting slightly higher impact of hearing loss towards spouse than the hearing impaired sufferers . Despite only slight different in the psychosocial effect between these two groups, Spearman correlation found no association between the HHIA-M scores and SOSHEAR-M scores. Conclusion: This study concluded that psychosocial impacts of hearing impairment were also experienced by their spouses. Above all, some spouses were more affected as compared to their hearing-impaired partners. To avoid detrimental effect of hearing loss to the spouse it is therefore important to measure their psychosocial impact from their partner hearing impairment and at the same time to uniquely manage their problems by including them in the hearing rehabilitation program. 2017-09-17 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58810/1/58810_Psychosocial%20impacts-%20abstract.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58810/2/58810_Psychosocial%20impacts-poster.pdf Tengku Zam Zam, Tengku Zulaila Hasma and Dzulkarnain, Ahmad Aidil Arafat and Rahmat, Sarah and Jusoh, Masnira (2017) Psychosocial impacts in adult hearing-impaired and their spouses. In: 10th Biennial Asia Pacific Conference on Speech, Hearing and Language (APC SLH2017), 17th-19th Sept. 2017, Narita, Japan. (Unpublished) http://www.c-linkage.co.jp/apcslh2017/
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spellingShingle	RF Otorhinolaryngology Tengku Zam Zam, Tengku Zulaila Hasma Dzulkarnain, Ahmad Aidil Arafat Rahmat, Sarah Jusoh, Masnira Psychosocial impacts in adult hearing-impaired and their spouses
description	Background and purpose of study: Spouse is the closest family member to the hearing-impaired patients and past literature has shown that hearing impairment resulted to poor emotional-wellbeing in both parties. Despite the reports on psychosocial effects in both spouse and patients, little attention has been paid to determine the relationship of both (spouse and patient) psychosocial consequences. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the psychosocial impacts of hearing impairment to the hearing-impaired adults and correlation to their spouses’. Methods: Two self-reported questionnaires, Malay Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adult (HHIA-M) and Malay Significant Other Scale for Hearing Disability (SOSHEAR-M) were used to investigate the existence and the relationship of self-perceived disability among adult hearing impaired and their spouses. Twenty-six couples participated in the survey using those two validated questionnaires. Result: SOSHEAR-M score (median=11.06) was significantly higher than HHIA-M score (median=8.00) suggesting slightly higher impact of hearing loss towards spouse than the hearing impaired sufferers . Despite only slight different in the psychosocial effect between these two groups, Spearman correlation found no association between the HHIA-M scores and SOSHEAR-M scores. Conclusion: This study concluded that psychosocial impacts of hearing impairment were also experienced by their spouses. Above all, some spouses were more affected as compared to their hearing-impaired partners. To avoid detrimental effect of hearing loss to the spouse it is therefore important to measure their psychosocial impact from their partner hearing impairment and at the same time to uniquely manage their problems by including them in the hearing rehabilitation program.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Tengku Zam Zam, Tengku Zulaila Hasma Dzulkarnain, Ahmad Aidil Arafat Rahmat, Sarah Jusoh, Masnira
author_facet	Tengku Zam Zam, Tengku Zulaila Hasma Dzulkarnain, Ahmad Aidil Arafat Rahmat, Sarah Jusoh, Masnira
author_sort	Tengku Zam Zam, Tengku Zulaila Hasma
title	Psychosocial impacts in adult hearing-impaired and their spouses
title_short	Psychosocial impacts in adult hearing-impaired and their spouses
title_full	Psychosocial impacts in adult hearing-impaired and their spouses
title_fullStr	Psychosocial impacts in adult hearing-impaired and their spouses
title_full_unstemmed	Psychosocial impacts in adult hearing-impaired and their spouses
title_sort	psychosocial impacts in adult hearing-impaired and their spouses
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/58810/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58810/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/58810/1/58810_Psychosocial%20impacts-%20abstract.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/58810/2/58810_Psychosocial%20impacts-poster.pdf
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Psychosocial impacts in adult hearing-impaired and their spouses

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