A New Comprehensive Cochlear Implant Questionnaire for Measuring Quality of Life After Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implantation

Abstract

Our preliminary data indicate that this CCIQ is a promising tool in assessing QoL specific to CI2 patients. Overall, patients reported improved QoL, independent of speech perception scores. Further refinements of the questionnaire with larger patient numbers are needed to strengthen the CCIQ.

Cochlear Implants in Subjects Over Age 65: Quality of Life and Audiological Outcomes

“…Several indirect instruments have been developed to assess the QOL in patients with a cochlear implant and various validation schemes have been presented in the literature [29,30]. Generic instruments to assess the Quality of Life, such as the SF-36 questionnaire, have already been used to assess CI performance.…”

Predictors of health-related quality of life in adult cochlear implant recipients in South Africa

“…Similarly, in a study where the additional benefit of a second CI was evaluated, Olze et al (Olze et al, 2012) indicated that HRQoL assessed with the NCIQ further increased after the second CI. With their novel HRQoL questionnaire that assesses physical and psychosocial benefits of sequential bilateral implantation, King et al (King et al, 2014) also demonstrated subjective improvement in all measured domains after receiving a second CI.…”

“…Similarly, HRQoL measures revealed a positive effect of implantation for unilaterally implanted postlingually deafened elderly patients (Orabi et al, 2006;Sanchez-Cuadrado et al, 2013;Vermeire et al, 2005) and also adult patients implanted for unilateral deafness (Arndt et al, 2011;Vermeire & Van De Heyning, 2009). Recent studies also demonstrate improved HRQoL for bilateral sequential cochlear implantation compared to unilateral implantation (Härkönen et al, 2015;King et al, 2014;Olze et al, 2012).…”

Sequential bilateral cochlear implantation improves working performance, quality of life, and quality of hearing

“…Sparreboom et al [8] found that sequential bilateral cochlear implantation in children is associated mainly with an improvement in disease-related (speech perception and directional hearing) aspects of QoL. King et al [9], with their new QoL questionnaire that assesses the physical and psychosocial benefits of sequential bilateral cochlear implantation, showed subjective improvement in all measured domainshearing and balance, psychological and social.…”