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.
Ahmed Ali, E., Guirguis Ragheb, S., Mohamed Hamada, S., & Ibrahim, N. (2018). Family Caregiver's Adjustment for Their Children with Hearing Impairment. Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 9(2), 151-160. doi: 10.21608/ejhc.2018.15516
MLA
Entessar Ahmed Ali; Seham Guirguis Ragheb; Soha Mohamed Hamada; Nadia Ibrahim. "Family Caregiver's Adjustment for Their Children with Hearing Impairment". Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 9, 2, 2018, 151-160. doi: 10.21608/ejhc.2018.15516
HARVARD
Ahmed Ali, E., Guirguis Ragheb, S., Mohamed Hamada, S., Ibrahim, N. (2018). 'Family Caregiver's Adjustment for Their Children with Hearing Impairment', Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 9(2), pp. 151-160. doi: 10.21608/ejhc.2018.15516
VANCOUVER
Ahmed Ali, E., Guirguis Ragheb, S., Mohamed Hamada, S., Ibrahim, N. Family Caregiver's Adjustment for Their Children with Hearing Impairment. Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 2018; 9(2): 151-160. doi: 10.21608/ejhc.2018.15516
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