Quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing students in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria.

ABSTRACT: Quality of Life encompasses an individual's well-being and health, social participation and satisfaction with functional daily living. Disabilities such as deafness can impact on the quality of life with spatial variance to the environment. Deafness causes communicative problems with significant consequences in cognitive, social, and emotional well-being of affected individuals. However, information relating to the quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing individuals, especially students in developing countries like Nigeria, which could be used to design special health-related interventions is sparse. This study examined the quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing students in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria. One hundred and ten deaf and hard of hearing students participated in this cross

SUBMITTER: Jaiyeola MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5749760 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature