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Health status of hearing‐impaired children and adolescents
Author(s) -
Kirman Aslı,
Yildirim Sari Hatice
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1440-172X
pISSN - 1322-7114
DOI - 10.1111/ijn.12071
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , medicine , hearing impaired , descriptive research , gerontology , audiology , psychology , statistics , mathematics , communication
This descriptive study was conducted to identify factors that affect the general health status of hearing‐impaired children and adolescents aged 6–18. One hundred six hearing‐impaired students were sampled from two primary schools and a high school in Izmir, T urkey. The data were collected utilizing the C hild H ealth Q uestionnaire ( CHQ ). Children and adolescents' physical health mean score and psychological health mean score were M = 47.4 ± 10.2 and M = 49.4 ± 9.5, respectively. Statistically significant differences in health status were found between the categories of age, mother's educational level and economic status of the family. The general health status of children and adolescents was found to be positive.