Assessment of Quality of Life in Chronic Otitis Media After Type 1 Tympanoplasty - An Observational Study.

This study is aimed to assess the outcome of Type-1Tympanoplasty in patients of Chronic Otitis Media (COM)- mucosal type and document the associated hearing gain and correlate it with the improvement in Quality of life (QOL) using COMOT (Chronic Otitis Media Outcome Test) 15 scoring. A hospital based prospective study was carried out in a tertiary care centre on 80 patients of mucosal type of COM. Patients were given COMOT 15 questionnaire to score the symptoms and pure tone audiometry (PTA) was done to assess hearing level.