Family Caregiver's Adjustment for Their Children with Hearing Impairment | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 13, Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2018, Pages 151-160 PDF (299.88 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2018.15516 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Entessar Ahmed Ali1; Seham Guirguis Ragheb2; Soha Mohamed Hamada3; Nadia Ibrahim2 | ||
| 1Children Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 | ||
| 2Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University | ||
| 3Audio vestibular Medicine, Hearing and Speech Institute, at Embaba district | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Hearing loss affects not only the individual, the entire family and society generally. Infants and children require access to detailed sound for auditory learning. Aim: Recognize family's adjustment for their children with hearing impairment. Design: A descriptive analytical research was used. Setting: “Hearing and Speech Institute” at Embaba district . Sample: Convenient sample of (60) child with hearing impairment . Tools for data collection: Data were collected through the following tools “Family's adjustment questionnaire for children with hearing impairment ” it consists of fourth parts; Socio-demographic characteristics for family caregiver , Family caregivers' knowledge, reported practices, and An adjustment scale to assess family caregivers’ adjustment toward caring of the children with hearing impairment . Results: the study revealed that, most of family caregivers are female and mothers as a caregiver, and have acceptable score level of knowledge, and most of practices (98.3%) have done . Moreover, most of practices (98.3%) have done by caregivers. Besides, the majority of caregivers (98.3%) have high adjustment . Conclusion: there was negative significant correlation between knowledge and practice; there was positive non-significant correlation between knowledge and adjustment, and there was almost no correlation between practice and adjustment. There was non-significant correlation between education level for caregiver and practice, adjustment, and knowledge. Recommendation: Continuous supervision for maternal and neonatal care by the Ministry of Health and Population, and Periodic Hearing Screening for Early Identification should be done for children before 6 months of age. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Hearing Impairment; family caregiver's; Adjustment | ||
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