Cavallaro Giada, Murri Alessandra, Nelson Emer, Gorrasi Rosaria, Quaranta Nicola
Otolaryngology Unit, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", 70010 Bari, Italy.
Audiol Res. 2022 Sep 27;12(5):518-526. doi: 10.3390/audiolres12050052.
The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly spread through Europe in the first months of 2020. On the 9th of March 2020, the Italian government ordered a national lock-down. The study's objectives were: to investigate the effect of lockdown on CI users; and to detect the difference in the perception of discomfort existing between unilateral cochlear implant (UCI) users and bilateral cochlear implant (BCI) users, due to the lockdown experience.
A 17-item, web-based, anonymous online survey was administered to 57 CI users, exploring hearing performance, emotions, practical issues, behavior, and tinnitus. Participation in the study was voluntary.
all CI users obtained an abnormal score in all questionnaire themes. For the emotion theme and the practical issue theme, the age range 61-90 showed a significant difference between UCI and BCI users in favor of BCI users (emotion theme: UCI mean = 3.9, BCI mean = 2.3, = 0.0138; practical issues: UCI mean = 4, BCI mean = 3, = 0.0031).
CI users experienced the lockdown negatively as regards behavior, emotions, hearing performance, and in practical issues. CI subjects with UCI in old age suffered more from the experience of lockdown than subjects with BCI in the same age, with regards to emotions and practical issues.
2020年的头几个月，新冠疫情在欧洲迅速蔓延。2020年3月9日，意大利政府下令全国封锁。该研究的目的是：调查封锁对人工耳蜗使用者的影响；并检测由于封锁经历，单侧人工耳蜗（UCI）使用者和双侧人工耳蜗（BCI）使用者在不适感知方面的差异。
对57名人工耳蜗使用者进行了一项基于网络的17项匿名在线调查，探讨听力表现、情绪、实际问题、行为和耳鸣情况。参与研究是自愿的。
所有人工耳蜗使用者在所有问卷主题上的得分均异常。在情绪主题和实际问题主题方面，61 - 90岁年龄组中，UCI使用者和BCI使用者之间存在显著差异，BCI使用者占优（情绪主题：UCI平均分为3.9，BCI平均分为2.3，P = 0.0138；实际问题：UCI平均分为4，BCI平均分为3，P = 0.0031）。
人工耳蜗使用者在行为、情绪、听力表现和实际问题方面对封锁有负面体验。在情绪和实际问题方面，老年UCI使用者比同年龄的BCI使用者受封锁影响更大。
