Penwal Suman Shankar, Chandanshive Chandrahas Uttamrao, Ambetkar Janhavi
Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology in Sumandeeo Vidyapeeth deemed to be university, Vadodara, India.
Department of Audiology and Speech Therapy, Topiwala National Medical College and B.Y.L Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai Central, Maharashtra India.
Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2024 Apr;76(2):1498-1502. doi: 10.1007/s12070-023-04319-7. Epub 2023 Nov 25.
The current study was taken up to estimate the prevalence of Single Sided Deafness (SSD) in a tertiary healthcare hospital in Mumbai. Also to determine the acceptance of Contralateral routing of offside signal (CROS) devices by individuals with SSD.
A retrospective study design was followed to collect data from September 2020 to September 2022. The data were collected by reviewing the files of the cases diagnosed with Single-Sided Deafness in a tertiary health care hospital in Mumbai.
The prevalence of SSD was found to be 24% for the given period. It was observed that 50 out of 4456 took a free trial and 2 bought the device.
The poor acceptance and purchase of CROS are attributed to the cost, and missed benefits of true binaural hearing in localization and hearing in noise. These benefits can be achieved by using CI, however, the cost and fear of surgery refrained the participants. Also, participants were observed to learn great use of communication repair strategies. Therefore, it is required to counsel individuals with SSD for CI and provide knowledge about care for the better with regular audiological follow-up.
开展本研究以评估孟买一家三级医疗医院中单侧耳聋(SSD)的患病率。同时确定SSD患者对侧信号对传(CROS)设备的接受程度。
采用回顾性研究设计,收集2020年9月至2022年9月的数据。通过查阅孟买一家三级医疗医院中诊断为单侧耳聋的病例档案来收集数据。
在给定期间,SSD的患病率为24%。观察到4456人中有50人进行了免费试用,2人购买了该设备。
CROS设备接受度和购买率低归因于成本以及在定位和噪声环境中听力方面真正双耳听力所带来的益处缺失。然而,使用人工耳蜗(CI)可以实现这些益处,但成本和对手术的恐惧使参与者望而却步。此外,观察到参与者学会了大量运用沟通修复策略。因此,需要为SSD患者提供人工耳蜗咨询,并通过定期听力随访提供更好的护理知识。