Comparison of the executive functions of elderly people with cochlear implantation and the elderly with hearing aids

Hearing impairment affects all aspects of a personchr('39')s life, especially auditory perception, while the use of cochlear implantation or hearing aids has a positive effect on auditory function. The aim of this study was to compare the improvement of executive dysfunction in elderly people who are performing cochlear implantation with people who use hearing aids.

The present study is of causal-comparative type which was performed in 1397 as an available sample on 105 elderly people over 65 years of age with hearing loss referred to Mashhad audiometry centers. The elderly participants in the study were divided into two groups, with the first and second groups being the elderly candidates for cochlear implantation and hearing aids, respectively. To collect the data, the Delis-Kaplan Executive Task Package Test (Ghavami et al., 2016) was used. Data were compared using multivariate variance and independent t. The data were analyzed by SPSS-v.20 computer software and analyzed.

The results showed that the scores of the elderly with hearing impairment with cochlear implantation in the executive functions of non-verbal working memory (P <0.001, F = 0.01), verbal cognitive flexibility (P <0.001, 0.98) = F). And nonverbal (P <0.001, F = 0.89), problem solving (P = 0.004, f = 22.32) and response inhibition (P <0.001, F = 4.81) as such Significance varies with hearing aids compared to the scores of the elderly

The results showed that there is a difference between executive functions in the elderly with hearing loss in the two groups of cochlear implantation and hearing aids.