Listening in elderly: To verify the impact of the self-perception of hearing loss on the quality of life of the elderly using the The Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (HHIE) and Tinnitus Handicap Inventory questionnaires

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Introduction: Among the changes that affect individuals who are aging, hearing loss is considered one of the most incapacitating. This sensorial privation prejudices communication, daily activities and social life of the elderly. Objective: To verify the impact of the self-perception of hearing loss on the quality of life of the elderly; specifically, to correlate items of both questionnaires The Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (HHIE); and to compare these aspects on subjects that reported difficulties to understand speech with individuals who didn’t have this complaint. Method: This study was approved by ethics committee on research involving human beings of the Prof. Joao Cardoso Nascimento Jr. Health Campus of the Federal University of Sergipe. Sixty-six elderly without neurological, psychiatric and/or hearing/vestibular disorders underwent audiologic evaluation, they also answered both questionnaires SF-36 and HHIE and Tinnitus Handicap Inventory - THI. Sort of Study: Contemporary, cross-sectional cohort study.

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