Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ASES INTERNATIONAL HEALTH, ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES CONGRESS, Ankara, Türkiye, 7 - 08 Mayıs 2022, ss.59
Abstract
It is very important to examine the social and psychological problems of parents with hearingimpaired children in a multidimensional way. Intervention and education programs should be
given to the child with effective and correct methods in order to carry out the service. The main
purpose of our research is to evaluate the caregiving burden, self-efficacy and resilience skills
of parents with children with hearing aids (HA) or cochlear implants (CI) by appropriate scales,
and to compare the findings from parents of children using amplification and those with normal
hearing. Participants of the study were applied to Ankara University Medical Faculty İbni Sina
Hospital, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Audiology, Balance, Speech Disorders
Diagnosis and Rehabilitation Unit. Three groups were formed as parents of children with
normal hearing (NH) hearing aid user (HAU) or cochlear implant user (CIU). There are a total
of 60 parents in these three groups as HAU (n=20), CIU (n=20) and (NH=20). The Parental
Self-Efficacy Scale (PSES), Zarit Care Burden Scale (ZCBS), and Brief Psychological
Resilience Scale (BPRS) were applied to parents. There was no statistically significant
relationship between the parents mean PSES scores according to the groups (p>0.05). It was
found that the ZCBS and BPRS values of the HA and CI groups were statistically significantly
lower than the control group (p<0.05). It was observed that there was a moderate (r=0.564;
p<0.05) significant and positive correlation between the PSES score and the BPRS score for CI
group. In the light of the findings of our study we thought that family-centered multidisciplinary
programs to be planned with the inclusion of parents of children with hearing aids or cochlear
implants could improve the quality of life of the child and the family.
Keywords: Cochlear Implant, Hearing, Hearing aid, Parent, Psychology