RESULTS
BILATERAL HEARING LOSS
A total of 113 participants participated in the study, of which 57 (50.5%) in the CG and 56 (49.5%) in the IG. IG and CG were homogeneous in terms of sociodemographic and clinical variables. In both groups, there was a predominance of single marital status (CG = 86%; IG = 89.3%), not having children (CG = 89.5%; IG = 91.1%), being in high school (CG = 86%; IG = 85.7%), not using a hearing aid (CG = 91.2%; IG = 91.1%) and having profound bilateral hearing loss (CG = 52.6%; IG = 51.8%), according to 