ACROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY TO MEASURE PARENT’S SATISFACTION WITH NEONATAL HEARING SCREENING PROGRAM IN ALEXANDRIA GOVERNORATE | ||
| ALEXMED ePosters | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 4, September 2024, Pages 57-58 | ||
| Document Type: Preliminary preprint short reports of original research | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/alexpo.2024.335516.2001 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Samir Ibrahim Assal1; Mirhan Eldeeb2; Fatma Ragab Abelhafiz3; Shrok Ibrahim Saad Dawod Elzyat* 1 | ||
| 1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Audiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University | ||
| 2Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Audiology unit, Faculty of Medicine Alexandria University Egypt | ||
| 3Department of Consultant of Audiovestibular Medicine, Ministiry of health, Alexandria University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Hearing screening has been implemented throughout the world to early identify and manage congenital hearing loss. Children whose hearing loss was identified early and had early interventions had significantly better outcome regarding speech and language. The NHSP’s success is closely related to parents’ attitudes and satisfaction with the process. Measuring parents’ satisfaction with NHSPs helps in identifying the programs’ insufficiencies, and therefore improving the current programs. The success of the intervention plans also depends on parents’ comfort, satisfied parents will be more cooperative and more compliant with treatment. This study is designed to assess parents’ satisfaction with NHSP in Alexandria governorate in order to identify the program shortfalls and work on its improvement. NHSP: Neonatal Hearing Screening Program. AIM: The aim of this study was to measure the parents’ satisfaction with neonatal hearing screening program in Alexandria governorate. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This study included 500 parents whose infants had their hearing screened, divided into 400 parents from the primary healthcare units, and 100 parents from the secondary healthcare centers in Alexandria governorate. An Arabic version of the PSQ-NHSPs was distributed to participants after taking their consent and explaining the process PSQ-NHSPs: Parents satisfaction questionnaire with neonatal hearing screening programs. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| NEONATAL; HEARING; SCREENING | ||
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