Impact of Hearing Impairment on Independent Travel in Individuals With Normal Vision, Low Vision, and Blindness.

IF 3 2区 医学 Q1 AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-29 DOI:10.1177/23312165251347130
Philip Reed, Joseph Paul Nemargut, Judith E Goldstein, Coral E Dirks, Yingzi Xiong
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Individuals with dual sensory impairment (DSI) often have reduced independence in their daily activities. Vision impairment is consistently reported to play a more dominant role than hearing impairment on home-based daily living, while little is known regarding the relative impact of vision and hearing impairments on tasks such as independent travel that require interacting with more complex environments. To address this knowledge gap, we administered a semistructured survey in a convenience sample of 161 individuals with normal vision, low vision, or blindness, with or without hearing impairment. A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches was used to analyze the data. Compared to normal vision, low vision and blind participants were significantly less likely to be frequent travelers. Low vision participants reported that vision impairment had a greater impact than hearing impairment on their travel independence, while blind participants reported hearing impairment to have a greater impact than blindness on their travel independence. The unique challenges in blind individuals were highlighted by their concerns on localizing dynamic sounds such as traffic during travel. Seventy percent of the hearing-impaired participants wore hearing aids and reported high utility for speech perception, but there was a significant reduction in the utility of hearing aids for sound localization especially for the blind participants. Our results reveal the interaction between vision and hearing impairments on independent travel and emphasize the need for an integrated rehabilitation approach for this population.

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听力障碍对正常视力、低视力和失明个体独立旅行的影响。
患有双重感觉障碍(DSI)的个体通常在日常活动中独立性降低。一直有报道称,视力障碍在家庭日常生活中扮演着比听力障碍更重要的角色,而对于像独立旅行这样需要与更复杂环境互动的任务,视力和听力障碍的相对影响却知之甚少。为了解决这一知识差距,我们对161名视力正常、视力低下或失明、有或没有听力障碍的人进行了半结构化调查。采用定性和定量相结合的方法分析数据。与正常视力的参与者相比,弱视和失明的参与者成为频繁旅行者的可能性明显降低。低视力参与者报告视力障碍对其旅行独立性的影响大于听力障碍,而盲人参与者报告听力障碍对其旅行独立性的影响大于失明。盲人所面临的独特挑战突出体现在他们对旅行中交通等动态声音的定位上。70%的听力受损参与者佩戴助听器,并报告了语音感知的高效用,但助听器在声音定位方面的效用显著降低,尤其是对盲人参与者。我们的研究结果揭示了独立旅行中视力和听力障碍之间的相互作用,并强调了对这一人群进行综合康复治疗的必要性。
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Trends in Hearing
Trends in Hearing AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGYOTORH-OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
CiteScore
4.50
自引率
11.10%
发文量
44
审稿时长
12 weeks
期刊介绍: Trends in Hearing is an open access journal completely dedicated to publishing original research and reviews focusing on human hearing, hearing loss, hearing aids, auditory implants, and aural rehabilitation. Under its former name, Trends in Amplification, the journal established itself as a forum for concise explorations of all areas of translational hearing research by leaders in the field. Trends in Hearing has now expanded its focus to include original research articles, with the goal of becoming the premier venue for research related to human hearing and hearing loss.
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