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Journal of Pediatric Nursing

Volume 30, Issue 1, January–February 2015, Pages 254-261
Journal of Pediatric Nursing

A Review of the Relationship Between the Needs of Mothers Who Have Hearing Impairment Children and Their State-Trait Anxiety Levels1

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This descriptive research was carried out to identify the relationship between the needs of those mothers who have hearing impairment children and their state/trait anxiety levels. Significant positive relationships were found between the mothers' state anxiety level and the overall FNS score, the subscales of Need for Information, Help Explaining to Others, Community Services, Financial Assistance and Family Functioning and also significant positive relationship were found between the trait anxiety level and the overall FNS score, the subscales of Need for Information, Need for Support, Help Explaining to Others Community Services, Financial Assistance and Family Functioning.

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Participants

The study was carried out on mothers of students attending a school for children with hearing impairment located in Gaziantep between February and April 2012. There are a total of 156 children at the elementary and secondary education sections of this school. Twenty-one of these children are boarding students since they do not have a family. The parents of the 135 students who live with their families were informed about the study via a telephone call. Eighty-seven families accepted to take

Sociodemographic Characteristics of Families

The mean age of the mothers taking part in the study was 39.31 ± 6.26 and the mean age of the fathers was 42.41 ± 6.72. It was observed that 57.5% of the mothers and 69% of the fathers were primary school graduates, 71.3% of the families had social security, the incomes of 75.9% of them did not cover their expenses, 67.4% of the fathers were working, 98.8% of the mothers were not working and 70.21% of the families had four or more children (Table 1).

Sociodemographic Characteristics of Children

It was found that 65.5% of the children were

Discussion

It was determined in our research that children had other problems besides hearing impairment such as chronic diseases, sight problems, walking problems and intellectual disability. In a study made carried out on disabled children with hearing impairment, it was found that 27.5% of the children had chronic diseases (Bodur & Durduran, 2009).

When data obtained from the open-ended question “Please list the five most essential needs of your family” contained in the second section of FNS in our

Conclusion

Our study results show that the greatest need of mothers of children with hearing impairment is information, especially regarding educational and social services, together with emotional support from professionals, informal and formal social networks, and support groups. It is likely that the implementation of programs for information provision and support, for families with children would be valuable. Our study results demonstrated that as the needs of the mothers having children with hearing

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This study presented as poster in 6.Ege Pediatrics and 2. Pediatric Nursing Days 2012.

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