{"id":6746,"date":"2021-03-16T16:02:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T23:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:04:47","slug":"self-reported-hearing-difficulties-are-associated-with-loneliness-depression-and-cognitive-dysfunction-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/16\/self-reported-hearing-difficulties-are-associated-with-loneliness-depression-and-cognitive-dysfunction-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Reported Hearing Difficulties Are Associated with Loneliness, Depression and Cognitive Dysfunction during the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the context of increased social isolation during the COVID-19, hearing difficulties among older adults were associated with self-reported anxiety, depression, and cognitive function, according to an online survey. Participants (n=80) had a mean age of 76 years and had their hearing measured by the Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ12) and were asked questions about socialization, loneliness, depression, and self-perceived cognitive function both pre-and-post pandemic. After adjusting for age, gender, and education, the association of hearing difficulty with cognitive function persisted.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Littlejohn et al.\u00a0(Mar 15, 2021). Self-Reported Hearing Difficulties Are Associated with Loneliness, Depression and Cognitive Dysfunction during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Audiology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14992027.2021.1894492\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14992027.2021.1894492<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the context of increased social isolation during the COVID-19, hearing difficulties among older adults were associated with self-reported anxiety, depression, and cognitive function, according to an online survey. Participants (n=80) had a mean age of 76 years and had their hearing measured by the Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ12) and were&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/16\/self-reported-hearing-difficulties-are-associated-with-loneliness-depression-and-cognitive-dysfunction-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6747,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}