Hearing impairment and depressive symptoms in an older chinese population

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 498-503

  Lee, Alex T H ^a   Tong, Michael C F ^a   Yuen, Kevin C P ^a,b   Tang, Peter S O ^a   Van Hasselt, C Andrew ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese; Depression; Elderly; Geriatric; Hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CHINESE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77957194803     PISSN: 19160216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7070.2010.090265     Document Type: Article

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