Evaluation of parents’ performance towards care of children with hearing disorders
Keywords:
evaluation, parents’ performance, children with hearing disordersAbstract
Objective (s): To evaluate parents’ performance towards the care of children with hearing disorders and determine the relationship between such performance and their socio-demographic characteristics.
Methodology: A descriptive design is employed on a non-probability, convenient, sample of (25) parents of children with hearing disorders. An observational checklist of (18) items is developed to evaluate these parents’ performance. Content validity and inter-observer reliability are determined through a pilot study. All parents have signed a consent form for their agreement to be participants in the study and for the determination of the ethical considerations. Data are collected through the use of the observational checklist and analyzed through the application of descriptive and inferential statistical data analysis approaches.
Results: The study findings reveal that the majority of parents have poor levels of performance (76%) and their performance is significantly related to their age only.
Conclusion: The study concludes that parents lack the opportunity to be engaged in educational and training sessions to perform towards children with hearing disorders. Parents' socio-demographic characteristics unfortunately have not influenced their performance towards children with hearing disorders except their age.
Recommendations: The study recommends a well-designed, constructed and implemented instructional program for parents to motivate their performance towards children with hearing disorders. Further research can be carried out on a large sample size with the use of different research approaches.
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