Mental Health
High rates of mental health problems in deaf adults.
Emotional and behavioral problems twice as common in deaf children
Degree of hearing loss does not correlate
Fellinger et al - 2005
austrian study
acknoweledges the difficulties in assessing mental distress in the deaf community due to the problmes in written or spoken word
Computerised Assessment package: • World Health Organisation’s Brief Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) •The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) •Five subscales of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)
•236 deaf individuals • •Comparison to normative data for german-speaking population • •Higher levels of emotional distress detected by GHQ-12 and BSI and in 2/3 domains of WHOQOL-BREF • •WHOQOL-BREF social relationships domain identified no difference.
kvam et al 2007
•Postal surveys in Norway (general population 1995-7 and deaf community 2001). • •Shortened Hopkins Symptom Checklist • •431 people enrolled from deaf register • •42,815 general population deemed hearing after screening for hearing loss • •Significantly higher depression and anxiety indicators in the deaf population
Fellinger et al 2005:
• •Lack of communication in early childhood – same as language problems in hearing • •Victims of abuse. • •Aetiology of deafness e.g rubella/meningtis. • •Feeling of insecurity/inferiority in a predominantly hearing word •
Kvam et al 2007:
•Childhood experiences • •Aetiology of deafness • •Socioeconomic issues – employment difficulty? • •Stigma and discrimination.
•Struggle to access Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT). • •Universal difficulties in accessing healthcare: •Appointment arrangement •Waiting rooms •Communication and availability of interpreters
•Specific challenges - specialist mental health services for death people are essential in the UK (Fellinger et al 2012). •
specialist mental health services
•Developed relatively recently – 10-20 years • •Alpha Hospital Bury •Multi-disciplinary, mixed deaf and hearing staff •Understand deaf culture •BSL users •Experienced working with deaf patients •Wide range of communication support •
Other units:
St Mary’s Hospital, Warrington
St George’s Hospital, Oldham
St Andrews, Northampton
Springfield Hospital, London
Jasmine Unit, Birmingham
John Denmark Unit, Manchester
Emotional and behavioral problems twice as common in deaf children
Degree of hearing loss does not correlate
Fellinger et al - 2005
austrian study
acknoweledges the difficulties in assessing mental distress in the deaf community due to the problmes in written or spoken word
Computerised Assessment package: • World Health Organisation’s Brief Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) •The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) •Five subscales of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)
•236 deaf individuals • •Comparison to normative data for german-speaking population • •Higher levels of emotional distress detected by GHQ-12 and BSI and in 2/3 domains of WHOQOL-BREF • •WHOQOL-BREF social relationships domain identified no difference.
kvam et al 2007
•Postal surveys in Norway (general population 1995-7 and deaf community 2001). • •Shortened Hopkins Symptom Checklist • •431 people enrolled from deaf register • •42,815 general population deemed hearing after screening for hearing loss • •Significantly higher depression and anxiety indicators in the deaf population
Fellinger et al 2005:
• •Lack of communication in early childhood – same as language problems in hearing • •Victims of abuse. • •Aetiology of deafness e.g rubella/meningtis. • •Feeling of insecurity/inferiority in a predominantly hearing word •
Kvam et al 2007:
•Childhood experiences • •Aetiology of deafness • •Socioeconomic issues – employment difficulty? • •Stigma and discrimination.
•Struggle to access Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT). • •Universal difficulties in accessing healthcare: •Appointment arrangement •Waiting rooms •Communication and availability of interpreters
•Specific challenges - specialist mental health services for death people are essential in the UK (Fellinger et al 2012). •
specialist mental health services
•Developed relatively recently – 10-20 years • •Alpha Hospital Bury •Multi-disciplinary, mixed deaf and hearing staff •Understand deaf culture •BSL users •Experienced working with deaf patients •Wide range of communication support •
Other units:
St Mary’s Hospital, Warrington
St George’s Hospital, Oldham
St Andrews, Northampton
Springfield Hospital, London
Jasmine Unit, Birmingham
John Denmark Unit, Manchester