Explaining Speech Recognition and Quality of Life Outcomes in Adult Cochlear Implant Users: Complementary Contributions of Demographic, Sensory, and Cognitive Factors.

ABSTRACT:

Hypotheses

Adult cochlear implant (CI) outcomes depend on demographic, sensory, and cognitive factors. However, these factors have not been examined together comprehensively for relations to different outcome types, such as speech recognition versus quality of life (QOL). Three hypotheses were tested: 1) speech recognition will be explained most strongly by sensory factors, whereas QOL will be explained more strongly by cognitive factors. 2) Different speech recognition outcome domains (sentences versus words) and different QOL domains (physical versus social versus psychological functioning) will be explained differentially by demographic, sensory, and cognitive factors. 3) Including cognitive factors as predictors will provide more power to explain outcomes than demographic and s

SUBMITTER: Skidmore JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7875311 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature