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Abstract
Diagnosis of hearing impairment in children brings a series of stressful
consequences to families specifically mothers. Thus, they are prone to multiple obstacles
related to child’s discipline, communication, medical treatment and follow-up, financial
strains besides psychological, social and physical obstacles. Mothers can use different
coping strategies interchangeable in order to overcome these obstacles. There are two main
coping strategies that include problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping.
Pediatric nurses should be aware of challenges perceived by mothers in order to minimize
their suffering and help them to cope positively according to different circumstances.
The aim of the present study was to identify obstacles and coping strategies of
mothers having children with hearing impairment.
The current study was conducted in the Egyptian Association for Protection of
Children in Damanhour. A convenient sample of 150 mothers having children with hearing
impairment comprised the study subjects. The age of their children ranged from 2 to 6
years and free from other chronic illness such as mental retardation, diabetes and other
sensory or motor impairments.
Two tools were used to collect the necessary data. The first tool was
Sociodemographic charactrstics and Medical Data of Mothers and their Children as
well as Obstacles Facing Mothers of Children with Hearing Impairment Structured
Interview Schedule which was developed by the researcher. It consisted of two parts; Part
1 included characteristics of mothers and their children. Part 2 contained obstacles that are
faced by mothers. The second tool was Brief Coping Orientation to Problems
Experienced (COPE) Inventory which was developed by Carver (2013). It was translated
into Arabic language by the researcher. It was composed of 28 items pertaining to 14
subscales.
Tools were tested for their content validity by five experts in the field of Pediatric
Nursing. Pilot study was carried out by the researcher on 15 mothers. Every mother was
interviewed individually in the waiting room during working hours of the center. The data
was collected over 4 months starting from the beginning of March to the end of June 2020.
The main results of the current study revealed the following:
Two-thirds of mothers (66.0%) were in the age group from 20 to less than 30 years
with a mean age of 28.42 ± 6.76 years.
The majority of mothers (83.3%) were married and 46.0% of them were having a
positive parental consanguinity.
Thirty-two percent of children had moderately severe impairment and using hearing .