To investigate the influence of cognitive factors on cochlear implant (CI) outcomes in post-lingually hearing-impaired adults, using a predictive model based on pre-implantation characteristics.
Pre-implantation cognitive assessment may help predict cochlear implant outcomes in post-lingually deafened adults, but the model needs external validation before it changes routine candidate selection practice.
Improving pre-surgical prediction of cochlear implant success could help clinicians better counsel candidates and allocate resources more effectively.
- 01Cohort study built an integrative model linking pre-implantation cognitive variables to CI outcomes.
- 02Population: post-lingually hearing-impaired adults (onset of deafness after language acquisition).
- 03Cognitive factors examined across multiple domains to explain interindividual outcome variability.
- 04Findings could inform pre-surgical counselling and candidate screening protocols.
- 05External validation in independent cohorts is needed before clinical adoption.
Pre-implantation cognitive factors causally influence cochlear implant outcomes in post-lingually hearing-impaired adults.
studypartially supportedAn integrative predictive model can account for interindividual variance in cochlear implant success.
studypartially supported- PMID
- 42486814
- DOI
- 10.1080/14992027.2026.2706374.
- Journal
- International Journal of Audiology
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 2b
- Population
- Post-lingually hearing-impaired adults undergoing cochlear implantation
- Intervention
- Integrative predictive modelling of pre-implantation cognitive factors
Primary outcomes
Cochlear implant outcome success (speech perception or related measures); Explained interindividual variance in CI outcomes attributable to cognitive factors