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Family Caregiver's Adjustment for Their Children with Hearing Impairment

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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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.

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10.21608/ejhc.2018.15516

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Hearing Impairment, family caregiver's, Adjustment

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Entessar

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Ahmed Ali

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Children Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357

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Seham

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Guirguis Ragheb

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Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University

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Soha

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Mohamed Hamada

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Audio vestibular Medicine, Hearing and Speech Institute, at Embaba district

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Nadia

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Ibrahim

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Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University

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9

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2

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1985

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2018-06-01

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2018-10-01

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2018-06-01

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151

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160

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1687-9546

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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Family Caregiver's Adjustment for Their Children with Hearing Impairment

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22 Jan 2023