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Quality of life among Elderly Hearing Impairment (Presbycusis) at Benha City

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Geriatric nursing

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Background: Hearing impairment (Presbycusis) is the third most prevalent chronic disease in the
elderly, and it affects their quality of life. Aim: this study aimed to assess the quality of life among
elderly hearing impairment (Presbycusis) at Benha City. Research design: A descriptive design
was used. Setting: The study was conducted at Auditory Unit in Benha University Hospital and
Benha Teaching Hospital. Sample: A purposive sample consisted of 100 elderly diagnosed with
hearing impairment. Tools: Two tools were used include; (1) a structured interviewing
questionnaire; it was composed of four parts: Socio-demographic characteristics, medical history,
and knowledge regarding hearing impairment, (2) Quality of life of elderly with hearing
impairment. Results: Most of the elderly people suffered from chronic diseases and the most
common disease was hypertension, more than half of them had impairment in both ears, most of
them had satisfactory level of knowledge, about two thirds had high score of total quality of life,
and finally most of them had high score of total hearing impairment handicapping. Conclusion:
Fortunately, the results revealed high total quality of life score and satisfactory level of knowledge
among elderly. On other hand, most of them suffered from highly hearing impairment
handicapping. Recommendations: Programs and studies should be done for teaching coping
strategies for elderly with Presbycusis; this may have a positive impact on the quality of life of
older people.

DOI

10.21608/jnsbu.2020.159369

Keywords

Elderly people, Presbycusis, and Quality of life

Authors

First Name

Huda

Last Name

El-Mahdy

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing –Benha University- Egypt

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First Name

Eman

Last Name

Abdallah

MiddleName

Shokry

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Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing - Zagazig University- Egypt

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First Name

Eman

Last Name

Ramadan

MiddleName

Nabil

Affiliation

Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing – Benha University- Egypt

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First Name

Mona

Last Name

Abdelmordy

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Abdalla

Affiliation

Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing –Benha University- Egypt

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1

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1

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23388

Issue Date

2020-01-01

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2019-12-01

Publish Date

2020-01-01

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1

Page End

18

Print ISSN

2682-3934

Online ISSN

2735-5802

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JNSBU_Volume 1_Issue 1_Pages 1-18.pdf

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Publication Title

Journal of Nursing Science Benha University

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Quality of life among Elderly Hearing Impairment (Presbycusis) at Benha City

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23 Jan 2023