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Research Paper

Severe-to-profound hearing impairment: demographic data, gender differences and benefits of audiological rehabilitation

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Pages 2766-2774 | Received 29 Dec 2017, Accepted 13 May 2018, Published online: 12 Jun 2018

Figures & data

Table 1. Demographic characteristics in patients with severe-to-profound hearing loss in Sweden with the proportions of male and female patients, crude odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) comparing gender differences.

Figure 1. The median air-conduction hearing thresholds for a total of 4286 male (n = 2157) and female (n = 2129) patients in the quality registry for severe-to-profound hearing impairment on the right ear and left ear separately.

Figure 1. The median air-conduction hearing thresholds for a total of 4286 male (n = 2157) and female (n = 2129) patients in the quality registry for severe-to-profound hearing impairment on the right ear and left ear separately.

Table 2. The proportion of patients with severe-to-profound hearing loss in audiological rehabilitation with various hearing care professionals in Sweden with the proportions of male and female patients, crude odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) comparing gender differences.

Table 3. The benefit of various audiological rehabilitation efforts for patients who participated/not participated for group rehabilitation and/or visits to the multiple professional competencies, calculated with “None/Some” benefits, for patients with severe-to-profound hearing impairment in Sweden, logistic regression analyses with crude and adjusted odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). For logistic regression Hosmer and Lemeshow Test shows goodness-of-fit 0.315.

Table 4. The proportion of patients for different QoL outcomes, in patients with severe-to-profound hearing loss in Sweden with the proportions of male and female patients, Crude odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) comparing gender differences.

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