Parental Attitude toward the Consequences of Cochlear Implantation in Children referred to the Besat cochlear implant center in Hamadan, 2019.

Cochlear implantation is a cure for hearing impaired or deaf children who can't use hearing aids. Parental attitude to post-cochlear implications can be effective in the process of child rehabilitation. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the parents' attitude towards the consequences of cochlear implantation in children referred to the Besat cochlear implant center in Hamadan, 2019.

  This cross-sectional study was performed on 100 parents of children with cochlear implantation. Research units were entered into the study by census method from April to September 2018. The research instrument was demographic characteristics questionnaire and parental attitude towards the consequences of cochlear implantation questionnaire. After completing the questionnaires by the research units, the data were analyzed using SPSS software version 16 and correlation coefficient, one-way ANOVA and independent T-test at a significant level of 0.95.

parental attitude towards the consequences of cochlear implantation was significantly related to the age of the child, lasting duration of cochlear implantation, Categorization of Auditory Performance and Speech Intelligibility Rating (p<0.05).

According to the findings, the more children received higher scores in the Categorization of Auditory Performance and Speech Intelligibility Rating, the parents had more positive attitude toward cochlear implantation, and the more the age of the child and the duration of the cochlear implantation, the parental attitude towards the consequences of cochlear implantation were more positive about the implications of cochlear implantation.