Mental health problems among 4–17-year-olds with hearing problems

Hancock, Kirsten; Brenann-Jones, C. G.; Vithiatharan, Rena; Payne, Donald; Runions, Kevin C.; Lin, Ashleigh; Eikelboom, Robert H.

doi:10.1080/21695717.2017.1325094

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“…Regarding types of bullying, the current study found that verbal and social bullying were reported in more than two thirds of males and in nearly two thirds of females deaf and dump students. These results supported by most studies that find verbal and social bullying occurs most often, followed by physical bullying U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018, Kowalski et al, 2012, Olweus, 2013 and Salmivalli et al, 2013 (9,32,33,34) Moreover, the current study found that physical bullying was reported in less than half of males and more than quarter of females deaf and dump students.…”

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Bullying Experience among Deaf and Dumb Students at Assiut City

Mohamed

Mahmoud²,

Marzouk³

et al. 2023

Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal

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Background: Bullying is a widespread issue in schools all around the world. Students with disabilities as deafness or dumbness are overrepresented in bullying prevalence both perpetration and victimization. Aim: To assess the deaf and dumb students' experience regarding bullying at Assiut city. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design was used. Setting: The study was conducted in two preparatory schools for deaf and dumb at Assiut city. Sample: A purposive sample of 270 students (120 males and 150 females) was included in the study. Tools: two tools were used. Tool (1): A structure interview questionnaire sheet included two parts. Part (1): Personal characteristics of studied deaf and dumb students. Part (2) studied students' history of exposure to different types of bullying. Tool (2): A modified child adolescent bullying scale contains 20 items. Results: It was found that 91.1% of studied students exposed to bullying, the most common type was verbal bullying and males were exposed more than females by 66.7%, 59.5% respectively, there were statistical significance relation between deaf and dumb students' total mean score of bullying scale and their gender, failure in school and days of absenteeism. Conclusion: the majority of studied deaf and dumb students had bullying experience; nearly about half of them exposed to bullying in their classes, and more than one-third of them are exposed to bullying by their classmate students which affected their desire to go to school. Recommendation: A bullying prevention committee should be formed at school to explore various factors associated with bullying.

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Bullying Experience among Deaf and Dumb Students at Assiut City

Mohamed

Mahmoud²,

Marzouk³

et al. 2023

Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal

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“…Of note, Hancock et al found that DHH children had higher rates of anxiety and behavioral disorders than hearing peers, independent of bullying experiences. 20…”

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Bullying and Children who are Deaf or Hard‐of‐hearing: A Scoping Review

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Objective/Hypothesis: The goal of this scoping review is to evaluate and synthesize the published research regarding bullying and children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH).Study Design: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for scoping review (PRISMA-ScR) statement was used as the guideline for conducting this review.Methods: This review included studies assessing pediatric (0-21 years) DHH children. Seventy records underwent the initial title-abstract screening, 33 underwent full-text review, and 23 studies met inclusion criteria. During the data extraction process, an additional six were excluded, resulting in a total of 17 evaluated studies.Results: Of the 17 studies assessed, nine compared peer victimization of DHH children and their hearing peers. Of those, seven studies reported that hearing loss (HL) is significantly associated with increased victimization. Two studies found that HL is significantly associated with decreased bullying perpetration. Notably, bullying in DHH children was not associated with a visible sign of disability, such as a hearing assistive device. Rather, variables such as educational setting, parental, and peer support are more likely to mediate bullying in this population.Conclusions: DHH children have a higher risk of peer victimization and may bully others less often than their hearing peers. Studies described the health consequences of bullying in children who are DHH, including sleep issues and anxiety. These consequences may have implications for the patients' overall HL management. Additional research regarding bullying interventions and prevention in this population should be conducted.

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“…Several studies have described the close relationship between hearing loss and motor development, suggesting that DHH children were at higher risk of deficits in balance and fine motor skills, with 12% of young DHH children detected with early gross motor developmental delay and one fifth of school age DHH children to be less competent in gross and fine motor skills compared to typical hearing peers ( 9 , 11 , 42 ). Children with slight/mild HL have also been reported to have significantly poorer physical HRQoL compared to typical hearing children ( 33 ) hypothesized to be related to inner ear abnormalities or the lack of environmental exposure due to sensory deprivation. Concurrent gross motor delay among DHH children is likely to intensify emotional/behavioral difficulties as the presence of motor delay in typical hearing children have been reported to have more emotional/behavior difficulties ( 43 ).…”

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“…Even though emotional/ behavioral mean scores were within normal range, the wide standard deviations and high proportion of scores indicative of Our study demonstrated a high prevalence of hyperactivity symptoms among both groups of DHH children. Although a review study reported contradicting results (2), many earlier studies have demonstrated ADHD-like symptoms among DHH children (6,33). Hyperactivity symptoms are not unexpected, as children with HL and ADHD share similar difficulties in executive function and self-regulation (34,35).…”

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Emotional behavioral outcomes of children with unilateral and mild hearing loss

Ong,

Smith,

Shepherd

et al. 2023

Front. Pediatr.

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BackgroundDeaf and hard-of hearing (DHH) children often experience emotional/behavioral difficulties. The impact of unilateral/mild hearing loss (HL) on children's emotion and behavior are unclear. We aimed to describe emotional/behavioral, health related quality-of-life (HRQoL) and parent psychological distress outcomes of school-age children with unilateral/mild HL, compared to children with moderate to profound HL, and in relation to population norms; and identify predictive factors of emotional/behavioral difficulties.MethodsData of 339 DHH children, 5–12 years, enrolled in the Victorian Childhood Hearing Longitudinal Databank (VicCHILD), which include demographics, early development, medical/audiological characteristics and parent rated questionnaires of emotion/behavior, HRQoL and parental psychological distress collected at various stages of child's life were analyzed. We used Cohen's d to investigate the outcomes by measuring the mean score differences of both groups with published norms and logistic regression to analyze the factors predictive of emotional/behavioral difficulties.ResultsThe proportion of children with unilateral/mild HL and moderate to profound HL who experienced emotional/behavioral difficulties was similar (18.3% vs. 20.6%), with hyperactivity and poor prosocial behavior reported as the predominant symptoms in both groups. Mean emotional/behavioral scores of both groups were comparable and substantially higher than normative population scores. This was also the case for HRQoL and levels of parent distress. Among children with unilateral/mild HL, additional health needs were the strongest predictive factor, demonstrating an approximately 1.7-fold increase in odds of emotional/behavioral difficulties (OR = 1.67; 95% CI 1.29–2.17, p < 0.001) with every additional health need. Early developmental concerns, other than communication milestone and attending mainstream schoolshowed weaker evidence of association.ConclusionChildren with unilateral/mild HL were just as likely as those with moderate to profound HL to experience more emotional/behavioral difficulties, poorer HRQoL and higher parental distress scores compared to population norms. Our findings justify the provision of early intervention, support and medical services for all DHH children to identify those at risk of poorer outcomes.

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Mental health problems among 4–17-year-olds with hearing problems

Cited by 10 publications

References 40 publications

Bullying Experience among Deaf and Dumb Students at Assiut City

Bullying Experience among Deaf and Dumb Students at Assiut City

Bullying and Children who are Deaf or Hard‐of‐hearing: A Scoping Review

Emotional behavioral outcomes of children with unilateral and mild hearing loss

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