Sensitivity of EQ-5D-3L, HUI2, HUI3, and SF-6D to changes in speech reception and tinnitus associated with cochlear implantation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

There is concern that some generic preference-based measures (GPMs) of health-related quality of life may be insensitive to interventions that improve hearing. Establishing where sensitivity arises could contribute to the design of improved measures. Accordingly, we compared the sensitivity of four widely used GPMs to a clinically effective treatment-cochlear implantation-which restores material degrees of hearing to adults with little or no functional hearing.

Methods

Participants (N = 147) received implants in any of 13 hospitals in the UK. One month before implantation and 9 months after, they completed the HUI2, HUI3, EQ5D3L, and SF-6D questionnaires, together with the EuroQoL visual-analogue scale as a direct measure of health, a performance test of speech recep

SUBMITTER: Summerfield AQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6470108 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature