O uso da Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade, Incapacidade e Saúde para acompanhamento de pacientes usuários de Implante Coclear

Abstract

This study concluded that most of the participating children showed no deficiency in the body functions, with difficulties being only reported in relation to school performance. Environmental factors (noise, non-availability of technological resources, absence of speech therapy) were characterized as a barrier. The need to expand assessments in the clinical routine was also noted.

Caracterização de aspectos fonoaudiológicos segundo as categorias da Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade, Incapacidade e Saúde para Crianças e Jovens (CIF-CJ)

“…With respect to the Body Functions component, almost half of the pre-selected categories were contemplated in this study. This number was higher than those found in other reviews and original articles previously published, with respective selection of two (12) , three (13) , seven (8) , and twelve (14) categories. Other studies found a larger number of categories: seventeen (15) and thirty (16) .…”

“…Among the categories selected in the present study, the ones that were most frequently described in previous studies were those related to hearing functions (b230) (8,14,15,17) , specific mental functions (b140) (8,16) , (b144) (8,16) , (b156) (14,15) , and voice functions (b310) (13,15) .…”

“…A Brazilian study whose objective was to characterize the profile of patients with cochlear implants cared in a rehabilitation hospital through the ICF-CY verified that most of participants presented the qualifier 0, that is, they did not have an impairment in the categories that indicated aspects associated with the reception and expression of spoken language. As for the hearing functions, most of them were also not impaired at the time of the study and were already users of electrical device for stimulation of the auditory nerve (14) .…”

Percepção de familiares de crianças e adolescentes com alteração de linguagem utilizando a Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade, Incapacidade e Saúde (CIF-CJ)

“…An Australian study highlights the great value of including the family in the process of counseling and clinical intervention, such as speech-language pathology (13) . For the authors, family members are aware of the impact that difficulties have on children and adolescents -an important factor to be considered in the definition of the priorities of therapeutic follow-up and to minimize parents' anxiety and frustration, which corroborate the findings of this research.…”

“…The national literature that makes use of the ICF-CY is scarce, and one of the first publications (13) in the field of Speech-Language Pathology based on the ICF-CY is aimed at children with cochlear implants and presents important questions for audiological practice.…”