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18. JAhrestAgung „MultidisziplinArität in der Audiologie“

Beitrag wird präsentiert am 06.03.2015 um 15.06 Uhr im Rahmen der SS05

Mental health problems in adolescents with cochlear implants

M. Huber

Salzburg

Aims were to investigate the extent of mental health problems of adolescents with cochlear

implants (CI) compared to normal hearing peers and possible relations between the mental

health problems of CI users and hearing variables, such as age at implantation.

The multicenter study included 140 adolescents with CI (mean age = 14.7, SD = 1.5 years) and

140 normal hearing adolescents (mean age = 14.8, SD = 1.4 years), matched for age, gender

and social background, with parents and teachers. Within the CI group, 35 adolescents were

assessed as “risk cases” because of additional handicaps, 11 could not be classiﬁed. Mental

health problems were assessed with the Strengths and Difﬁculties Questionnaire (SDQ).

The CI group (n=140) showed signiﬁcantly more “Peer Problems” than the hearing group.

When all “risk cases” and unclassiﬁable participants were excluded, no signiﬁcant differences

were found between CI group (n = 94) and hearing group. The excluded CI users (n = 46)

showed signiﬁcant more mental problems than their normal hearing peers. CI users who were

able to understand speech in noise showed less mental problems.

Parents, teachers, and clinicians should be aware that adolescents with CI tend to have mental

health problems related to their peers.

Beitrag wird präsentiert am 06.03.2015 um 15.24 Uhr im Rahmen der SS05

Low empathy in deaf or hard of hearing (pre)adolescents compared to normal hearing

controls.

A. Netten (1), C. Rieffe (2,3), S. Theunissen (1), W. Soede (1), E. Dirks (3), J. Briaire (1), J. Frijns (1,4)

(1) Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Leiden University Medical

Center

(2) Department of Developmental Psychology, Leiden University

(3) Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child, Amsterdam

(4) Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden

Objective:

The purpose of this study was to examine the level of empathy in deaf or hard of hearing (pre)

adolescentscomparedtonormalhearingcontrolsandtodenetheinuenceoflanguageand

various hearing loss characteristics on the development of empathy.

Methods:

The study group (mean age 11.9 years) consisted of 122 deaf or hard of hearing children (52

children with cochlear implants and 70 children with conventional hearing aids) and 162 normal

hearing children.

The two groups were compared using self-reports, a parent-report and observation tasks to

rate the children’s level of empathy, their attendance to others’ emotions, emotion recogni-

tion, and supportive behavior.

Results:

Deaf or hard of hearing children reported lower levels of cognitive empathy and prosocial

motivation than normal hearing children, regardless of their type of hearing device. The level

of emotion recognition was equal in both groups. During observations, deaf or hard of hear-

ing children showed more attention to the emotion evoking events but less supportive be-

havior compared to their normal hearing peers. Deaf or hard of hearing children attending

mainstream education or using oral language show higher levels of cognitive empathy and

prosocial motivation than deaf or hard of hearing children who use sign (supported) language

or attend special education. However, they are still outperformed by normal hearing children.

Conclusions:

Deaf or hard of hearing children, especially those in special education, show lower levels of

empathy than normal hearing children, which can have consequences for initiating and main-

taining relationships.

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