1997 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 48-52
During the past 23 years,54 children with psychogenic hearing loss have been evauluated clinically and statistically. The results are summarized as follows;
1. The age range of the patients was 6 to 15 years and the male/female ratio was 5 to 2.
2. The patients have been increasing in number and become younger compared with the early 10 year-period.
3. The chief environmental fuctors of the patient were based on not only small physical injury, but also psychogenic problems in their family or school.
4. Thirty of these patients were found by chance during school health examinations, and the other 24 patients were introduced from ENT clinics.
5. Prognoses of these disorders was usually good, except for patients referred to the ENT clinic because of their abnormal attitudes with regard to audiometry.
