Carmel Eldar, Kronenberg Jona, Wolf Michael, Migirov Lela
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.
Acta Otolaryngol. 2011 Feb;131(2):156-60. doi: 10.3109/00016489.2010.517784. Epub 2010 Oct 29.
Telephone use among implanted children is significantly different from that of the normally hearing population of the same age.
To characterize the use of telephone in cochlear implanted children and compare it to that of age-matched normal-hearing children.
The study (n = 26) and control (n = 27) groups each consisted of children aged 5-17 years treated at a tertiary referral center. The study group included children who received a Med-El multichannel cochlear implant and had used it for at least 18 months. The control group comprised generally healthy children with normal hearing and no history of chronic ear disease or otologic surgery. The main outcome measures, evaluated through a questionnaire sent by mail, were comparison of telephone use and speech comprehension over the telephone between the study and control groups.
The median age of the study and control groups was 9 and 7 years, respectively (p = 0.12). There was a significant difference between the two groups in the reported rate of telephone use (mean 128 and 244 min/week, respectively, p = 0.006) and speech comprehension of familiar persons and strangers, which was highly significant among teenagers. The reported sound quality was similar for the two groups.
植入人工耳蜗儿童的电话使用情况与同龄听力正常人群有显著差异。
描述人工耳蜗植入儿童的电话使用情况，并与年龄匹配的听力正常儿童进行比较。
研究组（n = 26）和对照组（n = 27）均由在三级转诊中心接受治疗的5至17岁儿童组成。研究组包括接受Med-El多通道人工耳蜗植入且已使用至少18个月的儿童。对照组由听力正常、无慢性耳部疾病或耳科手术史的一般健康儿童组成。通过邮寄问卷评估的主要结局指标是研究组和对照组之间电话使用情况以及电话语音理解能力的比较。
研究组和对照组的中位年龄分别为9岁和7岁（p = 0.12）。两组在报告的电话使用频率（分别为平均每周128分钟和244分钟，p = 0.006）以及对熟悉的人和陌生人的语音理解方面存在显著差异，在青少年中差异尤为显著。两组报告的声音质量相似。
