CICERO-Cochlear Implant Centrum, ENT-Clinic, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Waldstr. 1, 91054, Erlangen, Germany.
Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2021 Feb;278(2):345-351. doi: 10.1007/s00405-020-06096-3. Epub 2020 Jun 5.
To investigate the impact of the amount of depressive symptoms in cochlear implant (CI) recipients on the development of speech recognition after CI-activation up to 2 years.
Retrospective data analysis of a German short form of the Beck Depression Inventory given at initial activation of the implant in relation to monosyllabic word recognition score at conversational level at initial activation and at 3 months, 1 and 2-year follow-up measurements.
Thirty-one CI-patients (11 female, 20 male) aged between 41 and 83 (M = 64.77, SD = 10.43) who were German native speakers, postlingually deafened, with severe hearing loss in both sides but unilaterally implanted (19 right-sided, 12 left-sided).
The amount of depressive symptoms at initial activation was negatively correlated with the monosyllabic recognition score after 3 months and after 1 year of implant use.
The psychological status in terms of depressive symptoms is an important parameter regarding the rehabilitative outcome of CI-patients. Care staff and CI-users should be sensitized to the link between depressive symptoms and the development of speech recognition with CI.
调查植入人工耳蜗（CI）后患者抑郁症状的严重程度对 CI 激活后 2 年内言语识别能力发展的影响。
对德国 Beck 抑郁量表短表在人工耳蜗初始激活时的评估结果与初始激活和 3 个月、1 年及 2 年随访时会话水平的单音节词识别得分进行相关性分析。
31 名 CI 患者（11 名女性，20 名男性），年龄在 41 至 83 岁之间（M=64.77，SD=10.43），均为母语为德语、后天失聪、双耳重度听力损失但单侧植入（19 名右侧，12 名左侧）。
初始激活时的抑郁症状严重程度与 3 个月后和 1 年后的单音节识别得分呈负相关。
在考虑 CI 患者康复结果时，抑郁症状等心理状况是一个重要参数。医护人员和 CI 用户应意识到抑郁症状与 CI 言语识别能力发展之间的联系。
