Parental Perspectives on Adolescent Hearing Loss

• Bradley W. Kesser ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Virginia

     University of Virginia

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 311, Nº. 15, 2014, págs. 1556-1557
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Importance: Data indicate that 1 in 6 adolescents has high-frequency hearing loss, which is typically noise related and preventable. Parental participation improves the success of adolescent behavioral interventions, yet little is known about parental perspectives regarding adolescent noise-induced hearing loss.

    Objective: To perform a survey to determine parental knowledge of adolescent hearing loss and willingness to promote hearing conservation to discern information that is critical to design adolescent hearing loss prevention programs.