Table 2.
Parent and Child assessment of Quality of Life in children using Cochlear Implants
| Children with CI (n = 50) |
Parents of Children with CI (n = 45) |
Children with NH (n = 25) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD |
| Physical Well- being |
71.5 | 27.2 | 77.2 | 16.4 | 74.0 | 19.7 |
| Emotional Well- being |
85.0 | 19.6 | 82.8 | 13.5 | 76.0 | 18.4 |
| Self-esteem | 85.0 | 18.2 | 74.9 | 12.7 | 72.0 | 25.3 |
| Family | 87.5 | 15.4 | 73.9 | 14.6 | 90.0 | 14.4 |
| Friends | 84.0 | 15.8 | 75.1 | 14.3 | 90.0 | 12.5 |
| Everyday functioning/ school |
84.0 | 25.6 | 81.4 | 16.0 | 83.0 | 28.6 |
| General | - | - | 78.6 | 10.5 | - | - |
| Total | 82.8 | 9.7 | 78.1 | 9.6 | 80.8 | 10.4 |
Multi-dimensional quality of life (QoL) was assessed via the Kiddy KINDLR 39. Children completed 12 items evenly distributed among 6 subscales (e.g. physical well-being, emotional well-being, self-esteem, family, friends, and everyday functioning/ school). Parents completed 4 items per subscale plus an additional 22 questions as part of a General subscale that provided information about the child’s temperament and behavior patterns. The subscales of Kiddy KINDLR sum to an overall index score. Each score is transformed to a 100 point scale, with 0 representing minimal quality of life and 100 representing maximal quality of life. Statistical analysis of parent versus child assessment of quality life only could be conducted for overall quality of life due to the low number of items completed by the children in individual subscales. Thus, inclusion of individual subscales for children are included solely to demonstrate trends in the data.