Designing and Validating an Excellent Parenting Program to Create Peace and Reduce Challenge in Families of Children Suffering from Hearing Loss

The aim of this study is to design and validate an excellent parenting program to create peace and reduce challenge in families of children suffering from hearing loss. The research deals with basic knowledge in the field and its methodology is data collection and is of a quantitative nature. The first two steps were performed by content analysis method, the next three steps were performed using the Grounded Theory method and the next steps were performed by Delphi method. The statistical population included specialists in psychology and education of children suffering from hearing loss, teachers of preschool children with hearing loss and mothers of children suffering from hearing loss. The statistical sample included five specialists, five teachers and fifteen mothers. The program validation process was done in eight steps: reviewing the theoretical foundations of the program, reviewing the background and existing programs, determining the goals and content of the program, needs assessment and interview with the target group, designing program content, validating, reviewing and finalizing the program, and explaining program validation. The primary program was designed based on theoretical foundations and backgrounds. Then, the challenges of raising preschool children suffering from hearing loss were identified and 14 selective codes and 51 axial codes were obtained. Primary program and interview results were used to design an excellent parenting program, which was done in three rounds based on the Delphi approach. Then, the examiner triangulation, percentage agreement and Lawshe methods were used to determine validity, reliability and content validity index of the program, respectively. Therefore, an effective parenting program was designed in thirteen sessions. The reliability of the program was obtained by the percentage agreement method equal to 96% and its content validity index was equal to 0.97. According to the findings, an excellent parenting program has a high validity and reliability to create peace and reduce challenge in families of children suffering from hearing loss.