Quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing students in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria

Quality of Life encompasses an individual's well-being and health, social participation and satisfaction with functional daily living. Disabilities such as deafness can impact on the quality of life with spatial variance to the environment. Deafness causes communicative problems with significan...

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Published in:PloS one 2018-01, Vol.13 (1), p.e0190130-e0190130
Main Authors: Jaiyeola, Mofadeke T, Adeyemo, Adebolajo A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Biology and Life Sciences
Cognitive ability
Data collection
Data processing
Deaf persons
Deafness
Developing countries
Disabilities
Health aspects
Hearing loss
LDCs
Medicine and Health Sciences
Quality of life
Schools
Social behavior
Social factors
Social interactions
Social Sciences
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomics
Spatial discrimination
Students
Teenagers
Well being
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Summary:Quality of Life encompasses an individual's well-being and health, social participation and satisfaction with functional daily living. Disabilities such as deafness can impact on the quality of life with spatial variance to the environment. Deafness causes communicative problems with significant consequences in cognitive, social, and emotional well-being of affected individuals. However, information relating to the quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing individuals, especially students in developing countries like Nigeria, which could be used to design special health-related interventions is sparse. This study examined the quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing students in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria. One hundred and ten deaf and hard of hearing students participated in this cross-sectional study. Participants were drawn from all four secondary schools for the Deaf in Ibadan metropolis. The 26 item Brief version of the WHO Quality of Life questionnaire was used for data collection. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics at statistical significance of p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0190130