Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG - Belo Horizonte (MG), Brasil.
Pós-graduação em Ciências Fonoaudiológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG - Belo Horizonte (MG), Brasil.
Codas. 2021 Jul 23;33(5):e20200150. doi: 10.1590/2317-1782/20202020150. eCollection 2021.
To analyze auditory perception, hearing and cognition in the elderly referred for audiological evaluation and search for correlations between hearing and cognitive abilities.
An observational and descriptive study, carried out with 135 elderly people. The participants did the auditory (tonal audiometry, speech audiometry, immittance measures, HHIE Questionnaire - Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly) and the cognitive (MMSE - Mini Mental State Examination) assessments.
There is a high prevalence of hearing complaints (91.85%) and hearing loss (91.85%) in the elderly referred for audiological assessment, but there was no relation between the degree of hearing loss (p = 0.537) and the auditory perception (p = 0.930) in relation to cognitive performance.
In this study, the degree of hearing loss did not influence the cognitive performance of the elderly, and the auditory handicap perception did not differ between individuals with normal or altered cognition.
分析接受听力学评估的老年人的听觉感知、听力和认知，并寻找听力和认知能力之间的相关性。
这是一项观察性和描述性研究，共纳入 135 名老年人。参与者接受了听觉（纯音测听、言语测听、导抗测量、HHIE 问卷-老年人听力障碍量表）和认知（MMSE-简易精神状态检查）评估。
在接受听力学评估的老年人中，听力抱怨（91.85%）和听力损失（91.85%）的发生率较高，但听力损失程度（p=0.537）与听觉感知（p=0.930）与认知表现之间无相关性。
在这项研究中，听力损失程度并未影响老年人的认知表现，且正常认知和认知改变个体的听觉障碍感知无差异。
