Parent Hearing Aid Experiences

Muñoz, Karen F.; Roberts, Mallory; Mullings, D.; Harward, R.

doi:10.17955/tvr.112.1.689

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“…There are a variety of factors that influence hearing aid fitting and child outcomes because the EHDI system represents a continuum of care involving stakeholders from different professional groups, and parents have unique circumstances related to their families. Some challenges that have been reported include difficulty finding a pediatric audiologist, scheduling appointments, the cost of hearing aids, and other health problems for the child (Roush and Harrison, 1998;Fitzpatrick et al, 2008;Muñ oz et al, 2012). Spivak et al (2009) found that late diagnosis and unilateral hearing loss resulted in a delay in hearing aid fitting.…”

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Parent Hearing Aid Experiences in the United States

Muñoz¹,

Blaiser²,

Barwick³

2013

J Am Acad Audiol

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Significant progress has been made over the past two decades in reducing the age of hearing loss identification and hearing aid fitting for children who do not pass the NHS. However, many children continue to experience delays between hearing loss diagnosis and hearing aid fitting that exceed Joint Committee on Infant Hearing recommendations. The experiences parents reported provide valuable information about areas that need further investigation to improve the process for children with hearing loss.

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Parent Hearing Aid Experiences in the United States

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Barwick³

2013

J Am Acad Audiol

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“…Parent report of hearing aid use. Two of the studies were parent questionnaires designed to better understand parent hearing aid experiences related to access, timeliness of services, and challenges (Muñoz, Roberts, Mullings, & Harward, 2012;Muñoz et al, 2013). One study was a prospective longitudinal study that investigated hearing aid use during the second year of life, factors that influenced use with each family, environmental aspects, challenges encountered, benefit, and adjustment to the hearing aids (Moeller, Hoover, Peterson, & Stelmachowicz, 2009).…”

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“…The Muñoz et al (2012) pilot study (N=35), investigated parent experiences of young children (0-3 years) with hearing loss in Utah using an anonymous questionnaire. Parent report of typical hearing aid use indicated 37% of children used hearing aids 10 hours or more per day, while 31% reported 6 hours or less of hearing aid use per day.…”

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Hearing Aid Use for Children With Hearing Loss: A Literature Review

Muñoz

Hill

2015

Perspect Hear Hear Dis Child

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to complete a comprehensive literature review related to hearing aid use during early childhood. Method A rapid evidence assessment was completed to provide a summary of information published or presented between 1980 and 2012. A qualitative assessment was completed for all eligible material, emergent themes related to hearing aid use were synthesized, and a narrative summary was generated. Results Eight publications, one conference proceeding, and one presentation were identified. Three themes emerged from the review: hours of hearing aid use, factors influencing use, and suggestions about how to increase use from parents and professionals. Conclusion Minimal research has been done related to hearing aid use for young children with hearing loss. Further research is needed to address influences such as quality of fit, parent factors, multiple disabilities, and cultural differences and to investigate effective strategies for increasing hearing aid use.

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“…It is accepted that infants' sleeping patterns can affect this number, particularly in the newborn stage where hearing aids are now often issued, and infants may only be alert for 1-2 hours at a time. A few studies have investigated duration of hearing aid use with subjective parental estimation or objective datalogging measures and found wide variation in the pattern of results, also with differing definitions of consistent usage [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Two studies by Muñoz et al [9,10] indicated 38% and 43% of parents reporting use of aiding as less than all waking hours in children aged 0 to 18 months and 19 to 36 months respectively.…”

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“…A few studies have investigated duration of hearing aid use with subjective parental estimation or objective datalogging measures and found wide variation in the pattern of results, also with differing definitions of consistent usage [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Two studies by Muñoz et al [9,10] indicated 38% and 43% of parents reporting use of aiding as less than all waking hours in children aged 0 to 18 months and 19 to 36 months respectively. Further, interviews with 7 families performed by Moeller et al [8] found that only 3 families were able to achieve consistent use of hearing aids by the age of 16.5 months.…”

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Clinical and sociodemographic predictors of hearing aid use in infants aged 0-2 with permanent childhood hearing loss: a retrospective cohort single-site pilot study

Gosnell

Rajasingam

Mahon

et al. 2023

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Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify differences in hearing aid use among infants aged 0-2 years with respect to clinical and sociodemographic factors in an attempt to better predict which patients and families may benefit from extra support in the early stages of hearing aid fitting to encourage optimum usage. The secondary aim was to investigate how hearing aid use changed over the first two years post-fitting. Methods: A retrospective review of records was performed on 252 patients, aged 0-2 years with permanent childhood hearing loss from a single-site hospital who were fitted with hearing aids between 2005-2022. Ninety-six patients met the inclusion criteria. Datalogging values were collected for six different time points post fitting that coincided with their routine clinical follow-up appointments: 2 weeks, 6 weeks, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months and 24 months. Clinical and sociodemographic information was also collected for each participant. This included sex, average pure tone threshold, unilateral vs bilateral use, speech intelligibility score, additional disabilities, Index of Multiple Deprivation, Income Decile, Education and Skills Decile, Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI), ethnicity and home language. Results: The datalogging results indicated a median average of 4.67 hours (3.0-7.3) hours per day use across patients and across the first two years post-fitting. Differences in datalogging according to IDACI Decile was significant (p=0.01), suggesting that infants from the more deprived groups (1-5) used their devices less. All other predictors did not reach statistical significance. There was insufficient data to investigate change in hearing aid use over the first two years post-fitting. Discussion: There were significant amounts of missing datalogging information. Some of the missing data was attributed by the clinical teams to lost hearing aids or unattended appointments. It is also believed that time restraints in clinic are the primary barrier. The datalogging values are lower than expected. It is considered that up to 12 hours per day use is necessary for good speech and language development. The findings highlighted that many families struggle to achieve optimal hearing aid usage in their infants. There was an association between daily device use and one socioeconomic status predictor. Conclusions: Average datalogging values for daily hearing device use were lower than considered optimal for 0-2 year olds with permanent childhood deafness. The only factor related to these findings was IDACI Decile indicating that infants from more deprived backgrounds may achieve lower hearing aid usage than those from the lesser deprived regions. This finding needs to be verified on a larger scale and better understood to explore potential approaches to overcome the problems. The role of multiple factors also needs to be explored with a larger sample size. This would require a multi-centre study to be conducted.

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Parent Hearing Aid Experiences

Cited by 4 publications

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Parent Hearing Aid Experiences in the United States

Parent Hearing Aid Experiences in the United States

Hearing Aid Use for Children With Hearing Loss: A Literature Review

Clinical and sociodemographic predictors of hearing aid use in infants aged 0-2 with permanent childhood hearing loss: a retrospective cohort single-site pilot study

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