Abstract
Preoperative and postoperative psychology of twenty patients with bilateral chronic otitis media was examined in order to investigate how conductive deafness influenced them and how they changed after hearing improvement by tympanoplasty.
Main preoperative features were inconvenient life, timid and depressive tendency, inferiority complex, limited change of behaviors and so on. Especially, expectation for surgical approach to improve hearing was very strong.
After improvement of hearing, patients' psychosomatic aspects changed to light countenance, delightfull expression, better personal relations, disappearance of inferiority complex, disuse of hearing aid, extention of behaviors and so on.
We would like to emphasize the significance to improve hearing loss surgically for conductive deafness which suppresses psychology and behaviors.
