"Children who were submitted to surgery in earlier ages make a more positive analysis of their quality of life" (p. 388).
Two studies "found a positive correlation between the total HRQL [health-related quality of life] score and the duration of CI [cochlear implant] use, and those children using [CI] longer had a more positive assessment of their HRQL.... Younger children made a more positive classification of their HRQL than the older children" (p. 388).
"The main aspects of quality of life raised in the studies selected for this systematic review were: physical well-being; emotional well-being; self-esteem; family; friends; school; satisfaction with the CI [cochlear implant]; social aspects; mobility, self-care; pain; telephone use; speech understanding; hearing environmental sounds; communication; self-sufficiency; use of the devices; attitudes of others and self-confidence" (p. 385).
