Adolescent Depression and Hearing Impairment: The Causes, Complications and Management

Abstract

It makes intuitive sense that difficulty in hearing could predispose an individual to depressive symptoms. It is highly demanding when such an individual with a hearing impairment is also an adolescent. Adolescent depression among individuals with hearing impairment may increase the risk for subsequent depression and anxiety during adulthood, thus efforts should be directed towards ameliorating factors that could induce depressive symptoms among adolescents with hearing impairment.