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标题：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
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作者：Hasanat Alamgir ; Caryn A. Turner ; Nicole J. Wong 等
期刊名称：Military Medical Research
印刷版ISSN：2054-9369
出版年度：2016
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：11
DOI：10.1186/s40779-016-0082-5
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：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.
关键词：Quality of life (QOL) ; Hearing impairment ; Noise-induced hearing injury ; Hearing loss ; Tinnitus ; Hearing impairment and noise-induced hearing injury (HINIHI) ; Military ; Service members