Table 1.
Demographic, Audiologic, Screening, Auditory Outcome, and QOL (NCIQ) Data for CI Participants
| Mean | N | (Min-Max) | SD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | ||||
| Age (years) | 66.8 | 44 | (45–83) | 10.1 |
| Socioeconomic status (score) | 26.5 | 44 | (9–64) | 14.5 |
| Audiologic factors | ||||
| Age hearing loss began (years) | 26.9 | 44 | (0–68) | 21.1 |
| Duration of deafness (years) | 39.6 | 44 | (4–76) | 19.5 |
| Age at implantation (years) | 59.8 | 44 | (35–82) | 12.6 |
| Duration of CI use (years) | 7.0 | 44 | (1–34) | 6.6 |
| Better-ear pure-tone average (dB HL) | 96.3 | 44 | (22.5–120) | 21.5 |
| Screening measures | ||||
| Reading (standard score) | 97.6 | 44 | (77–122) | 11.9 |
| Cognitive Mini-Mental State Examination (Tscore) | 53.5 | 43 | (30–83) | 9.9 |
| Speech/environmental sound recognition | ||||
| Word recognition (percent correct) | 66.8 | 44 | (18–98) | 21.5 |
| Standard sentence recognition (percent words correct) | 73.4 | 43 | (12–91) | 16.1 |
| AzBio sentence recognition (percent words correct) | 86.5 | 22 | (40–99) | 14.5 |
| High-variability sentence recognition (percent words correct) | 57.2 | 43 | (7–97) | 23.7 |
| Audiovisual sentence recognition (percent words correct) | 90.5 | 44 | (52–100) | 11.7 |
| Environmental sound recognition (percent correct) | 60.9 | 43 | (16–88) | 14.8 |
| QOL | ||||
| NCIQ (sum score) | 204.4 | 43 | (116–269) | 39.0 |
| Physical—basic sound perception | 62.6 | 44 | (25–100) | 18.4 |
| Physical—advanced sound perception | 59.6 | 44 | (28–98) | 17.7 |
| Physical—speech production | 82.3 | 44 | (28–100) | 15.1 |
| Physical (sum score) | 68.2 | 44 | (32–99) | 14.4 |
| Psychological—self-esteem (sum score) | 66.4 | 43 | (19–92) | 16.9 |
| Social—activity limitations | 77.2 | 43 | (18–98) | 15.4 |
| Social—social interactions | 63.4 | 43 | (19–83) | 12.5 |
| Social (sum score) | 70.3 | 43 | (18–90) | 13.4 |