The impact of hearing impairment and noise-induced hearing injury on quality of life in the active-duty military population: challenges to the study of this issue.
The impact of hearing impairment and noise-induced hearing injury on quality of life in the active-duty military population: challenges to the study of this issue.
复制标题
DOI：
10.1186/s40779-016-0082-5
复制
发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
21.1
通讯作者：
Packer MD
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Alamgir H;Turner CA;Wong NJ;Cooper SP;Betancourt JA;Henry J;Senchak AJ;Hammill TL;Packer MD
本研究的目的是：1）总结美国现役军人听力损失对生活质量（QOL）影响的现有证据，2）描述用于量化听力损失对生活质量影响的QOL工具，3）检查全国人口水平的二级数据库，并报告其在研究听力损失对现役军人生活质量影响方面的效用，以及4）为未来的研究提供建议，以量化听力损失对这一人群的影响。缺乏文献，解决听力障碍，军事人口和生活质量的措施的交叉。对于听力学研究，美国军事人员提供了一个独特的研究人群，因为他们暴露在民用工作环境中非常不寻常的噪音水平和爆炸环境中，可以作为研究与这些条件相关的QOL影响的模型人群。我们的团队建议对现役军人群体进行一项研究，使用适合于确定听力损失导致的生活质量下降的测量仪器。
The objectives of this research were to 1) summarize the available evidence on the impact of hearing loss on quality of life (QOL) among U.S. active-duty service members, 2) describe the QOL instruments that have been used to quantify the impact of hearing loss on quality of life, 3) examine national population-level secondary databases and report on their utility for studying the impact of hearing loss on QOL among active-duty service members, and 4) provide recommendations for future studies that seek to quantify the impact of hearing loss in this population. There is a lack of literature that addresses the intersection of hearing impairment, the military population, and quality of life measures. For audiological research, U.S. military personnel offer a unique research population, as they are exposed to noise levels and blast environments that are highly unusual in civilian work settings and can serve as a model population for studying the impact on QOL associated with these conditions. Our team recommends conducting a study on the active-duty service member population using a measurement instrument suitable for determining decreases in QOL specifically due to hearing loss.