Triple Difficulties in Japanese Women with Hearing Loss: Marriage, Smoking, and Mental Health Issues

Yoko Kobayashi, Nanako Tamiya, Yoko Moriyama and Akihiro Nishi

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: Objective: To examine the consequences of early-onset hearing loss on several social and health measures and any related gender differences in Japanese populations. Methods: Data from a 2007 nationally representative cross-sectional household survey of 136,849 men and women aged 20 to 39 years were obtained (prevalence of self-reported hearing loss: 0.74%). We focused particularly on four social and health measures: employment status (employed/unemployed), marital status (married/unmarried), smoking behavior (yes/no), and psychological distress (K6 instrument: ≥ 5 or not). We examined the association of hearing loss for each measure using generalized estimating equations to account for correlated individuals within households. Findings: There was no significant association with employment status (p = 0.447). Men with hearing loss were more likely to be married, whereas women with hearing loss were less likely to be married (p

Date: 2015
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