Evaluation of the Parental Perspective instrument for pediatric cochlear implantation to arrive at a short version

Parents’ views on the quality of life of their children 2–3 years after cochlear implantation

“…The development of this clinical and research tool has been described earlier in several reports [13,25,26]. It is available in printed form in some recent articles [26][27][28], and it is also loadable for storing and analysis of the results and sharing anonymous data at http:// www.earfoundation.org.uk/research/questionnaires.html. This questionnaire surveying phenomena of multi-faceted nature has been found to be valid and satisfactorily reliable in exploring parental experiences and views on the quality of life of the child and his/her family following cochlear implantation [26,27,29].…”

“…Finnish children have received almost exclusively only one implant. Coding strategies in use were ACE (28), N of M (1), CIS (4), and CIS+ (3). All children used their implant regularly, defined as a minimum of 6 h a day at least on 6 days a week.…”

Health-related quality of life in children and adolescents who use cochlear implants

“…Items parallel questions on HRQoL instruments designed for adults or children using CI covering topics such as peer acceptance, self-image, and CI satisfaction [10,20,22,32,33] (please see details in Section 2). This paper presents an initial attempt to explore CI-specific quality of life in a large cohort of children and adolescents using CI.…”

“…[10,20,22,32,33]. Like the KINDL R , questions were posed in past tense and specifically addressed CI use such as, ''During the past week, I heard everything I needed to hear with my cochlear implant on.''…”

Qualidade de vida de crianças com implante coclear

“…A utilização de instrumentos específicos de avaliação é altamente vantajosa, pois permite a verificação da percepção dos pais e o fornecimento de informações sobre o desenvolvimento auditivo e de linguagem falada, e expressa mudanças significativas na percepção da família quanto à satisfação do usuário do IC. Estes dados auxiliam os profissionais no processo de intervenção e habilitação fonoaudiológica (DAMEN et al, 2007;MORETTIN et al, 2013). O fato dos maiores índices de qualidade de vida associada ao IC serem registrados nestes domínios, sugere que para os pais a capacidade auditiva e aquisição de linguagem se aplicam de forma prática no cotidiano destas crianças e contribuem para a inserção e ampliação das atividades sociais (familiares e não familiares) em decorrência da aceitação de suas competências em situações complexas de trocas comunicativas.…”