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This survey, "Life and Health-Young People 2005," included all 15/16-year-old
adolescents in mainstream schools in the county of Orebro, Sweden.



Just students with a slight/mild or moderate hearing loss were included.



There were 56 (1.9%) "hard-of-hearing (HH) students with multiple disabilities,"
93 (3.1%) students who were "just HH," 282 (9.7%) students with some "other
disability than HH," and 2,488 (85.2%) students with "no disability." "HH with
multiple disabilities" reported considerably higher scores for mental symptoms,
substance use, and school problems than the "no disability" group.



Those with "just HH" and those with "other disability than HH" had more mental
symptoms and school problems than the "no disability" group but no significant
differences in substance use.



In conclusion, the combination of a hearing loss and some other disability
strongly increases the risk for mental symptoms, school problems, and substance
use. This group, thus, is an important target for preventive measures.







J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2008 Summer;13(3):324-35. Epub 2007 Dec 13. Links

Self-rated mental health, school adjustment, and substance use in
hard-of-hearing adolescents.

Brunnberg E, Boström ML, Berglund M.



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