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Quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing students in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria

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  • Mofadeke T Jaiyeola
  • Adebolajo A Adeyemo

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Quality of Life encompasses an individual’s well-being and health, social participation and satisfaction with functional daily living. Disabilities such as deafness can impact on the quality of life with spatial variance to the environment. Deafness causes communicative problems with significant consequences in cognitive, social, and emotional well-being of affected individuals. However, information relating to the quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing individuals, especially students in developing countries like Nigeria, which could be used to design special health-related interventions is sparse. This study examined the quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing students in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria. One hundred and ten deaf and hard of hearing students participated in this cross-sectional study. Participants were drawn from all four secondary schools for the Deaf in Ibadan metropolis. The 26 item Brief version of the WHO Quality of Life questionnaire was used for data collection. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics at statistical significance of p

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  • Mofadeke T Jaiyeola & Adebolajo A Adeyemo, 2018. "Quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing students in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(1), pages 1-11, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0190130
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190130
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    1. Chonggao Wang & Wangqian Fu & Kangjie Geng & Yan Wang, 2023. "The Relationship Between Deaf Adolescents’ Empathy and Subjective Well-Being in China During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Inconsistent Role of Peer Support and Teacher Support," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 16(5), pages 1913-1940, October.
    2. Emmanuel Ihechi Asonye & Ezinne Emma-Asonye & Mary Edward, 2018. "Deaf in Nigeria: A Preliminary Survey of Isolated Deaf Communities," SAGE Open, , vol. 8(2), pages 21582440187, June.

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