Babies' Portal Website Hearing Aid Section: Assessment
                    by Audiologists

Bastos, Bárbara Guimarães; Ferrari, Deborah Viviane

doi:10.1055/s-0034-1368139

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Original Research • Int. Arch. Otorhinolaryngol. 18 (4) • 2014 • https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0034-1368139 copy

Babies' Portal Website Hearing Aid Section: Assessment by Audiologists

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

Introduction

The family has ultimate responsibility for decisions about the use and care during the daily routine and problem solving in the manipulation of hearing aids (HA) in infants and children.

Objective

The purpose of the study was to assess technical and content quality of Babies' Portal website Hearing Aid section by audiologists.

Methods

Letters and e-mails were sent inviting professionals to surf the website and anonymously fill out an online form with 58 questions covering demographic data as well as the website's technical (Emory questionnaire with the subscales of accuracy, authorship, updates, public, navigation, links, and structure) and content quality.

Results

A total of 109 professionals (tree men and 106 women) with mean age of 31.6 years participated in the study. Emory percentage scores ranged from 90.1 to 96.7%. The Hearing Aid section contents were considered good or very good.

Conclusion

The website was deemed to have good technical and content quality, being suitable to supplement informational counseling to parents of hearing-impaired children fitted with hearing aids.

hearing loss; hearing aids; audiology; counseling; telehealth; internet

Regions	Frequency of Internet use
Regions	Frequently (several times a day), n (%)	Usually (several times a week), n (%)	Occasionally (once or twice a week), n (%)
Southeast (n = 64)	54 (84.4)	9 (16.7)	1 (1.6)
South (n = 23)	16 (69.6)	6 (26.1)	1 (4.3)
NNM (n = 22)	18 (81.8)	4 (18.2)	0
Total (n = 109)	88 (80.7)	19 (17.4)	2(1.8)

Emory questionnaire	Region						Kruskal-Wallis test
	Southeast (n = 64)		South (n = 23)		NNM (n = 22)		Kruskal-Wallis test
	X̅	SD	X̅	SD	X̅	SD	k	p value
Content	97.9	4.45	96.0	7.05	95.4	8.85	2.08	0.35
Precision	96.5	9.83	93.5	11.22	94.3	13.21	2.15	0.33
Authorship	97.9	5.56	93.5	12.04	97.0	6.58	2.88	0.23
Updates	89.1	15.98	91.3	14.32	92.0	16.16	1.09	0.57
Public	98.2	5.84	95.7	10.40	97.2	10.86	1.01	0.60
Navigation	91.9	8.52	91.0	9.00	94.9	7.23	3.22	0.19
Links	96.9	9.21	96.4	10.61	94.7	13.74	0.25	0.98
Structure	94.5	7.41	90.1	9.05	90.9	14.44	4.71	0.09
Total	95.7	4.09	93.7	5.23	94.7	8.22	3.53	0.17

Emory questionnaire	Spearman correlation
Emory questionnaire	rho	p value
Content	–0.07	0.41
Precision	0.22	0.02^a a p < 0.05, statistically significant.
Authorship	0.07	0.41
Updates	0.09	0.33
Public	0.10	0.26
Navigation	–0.02	0.81
Links	0.07	0.41
Structure	0.05	0.57
Total	0.12	0.18

Content	All participants		Group for statistical analysis (n = 71)
Content	X̅	SD	X̅	SD
What's a hearing aid? (n = 99)	4.7	0.59	4.6	0.66
Ear impression (n = 97)	4.6	0.62	4.7	0.64
Hearing aid types (n = 100)	4.5	0.68	4.6	0.71
Hearing aid technologies (n = 96)	4.6	0.74	4.6	0.72
The best HA for your child (n = 93)	4.5	0.76	4.6	0.80
Using one or two HAs (n = 94)	4.7	0.57	4.7	0.61
Hearing aid use and care (n = 96)	4.7	0.59	4.7	0.65
Hearing aid parts (n = 91)	4.6	0.65	4.6	0.66
Care with batteries (n = 90)	4.6	0.59	4.7	0.61
Hearing aid cleaning (n = 90)	4.7	0.55	4.8	0.57
Prevention of moisture (n = 90)	4.7	0.56	4.8	0.60
Earmold care (n = 91)	4.6	0.60	4.7	0.62
Turning the HA on and off (n = 87)	4.7	0.55	4.8	0.59
Earmold cleaning (n = 92)	4.7	0.57	4.7	0.61
Use of volume control (n = 91)	4.7	0.60	4.7	0.60
HA insertion and removal (n = 88)	4.7	0.60	4.8	0.60
Telephone use (n = 89)	4.6	0.63	4.7	0.65
Hearing aid troubleshooting (n = 90)	4.6	0.61	4.7	0.63
Creating a HA use routine (n = 89)	4.7	0.59	4.8	0.59
Tips for parents (n = 84)	4.7	0.50	4.8	0.44

Content	Region						Kruskal-Wallis
	Southeast		South		NNM		Kruskal-Wallis
	X̅	SD	X̅	SD	X̅	SD	k	p value
What's a hearing aid? (n = 99)	4.8	0.47	4.7	0.91	4.6	0.51	3.17	0.20
Ear impression (n = 97)	4.8	0.43	4.4	0.99	4.7	0.56	2.73	0.25
Hearing aid types (n = 100)	4.7	0.54	4.3	1.01	4.7	0.59	3.22	0.19
Hearing aid technologies (n = 96)	4.7	0.60	4.3	1.12	4.7	0.58	3.70	0.15
The best HA for your child (n = 93)	4.7	0.71	4.2	0.94	4.5	0.60	6.87	0.03^a a p < 0.05, statistically significant.
Using one or two HAs (n = 94)	4.8	0.36	4.6	0.94	4.6	0.50	5.06	0.07
Hearing aid use and care (n = 96)	4.8	0.40	4.6	0.97	4.5	0.51	5.70	0.05
Hearing aid parts (n = 91)	4.7	0.48	4.5	1.02	4.6	0.62	1.52	0.46
Care with batteries (n = 90)	4.8	0.41	4.4	0.96	4.6	0.49	4.15	0.12
Hearing aid cleaning (n = 90)	4.9	0.29	4.5	0.96	4.7	0.47	6.83	0.03^a a p < 0.05, statistically significant.
Prevention of moisture (n = 90)	4.9	0.34	4.6	0.98	4.6	0.50	4.84	0.08
Earmold care (n = 91)	4.8	0.46	4.6	0.96	4.6	0.51	3.64	0.16
Turning the HA on and off (n = 87)	4.9	0.34	4.5	1.01	4.8	0.45	3.06	0.21
Earmold cleaning (n = 92)	4.8	0.37	4.6	0.96	4.6	0.50	4.02	0.13
Use of volume control (n = 91)	4.8	0.46	4.5	1.01	4.6	0.49	1.51	0.46
HA insertion and removal (n = 88)	4.9	0.36	4.3	1.03	4.7	0.49	8.18	0.01^a a p < 0.05, statistically significant.
Telephone use (n = 89)	4.8	0.47	4.4	1.04	4.6	0.50	3.04	0.21
Hearing aid troubleshooting (n = 90)	4.8	0.43	4.6	0.96	4.5	0.61	4.25	0.11
Creating a HA use routine (n = 89)	4.8	0.41	4.6	0.96	4.6	0.61	0.69	0.70
Tips for parents (n = 84)	4.9	0.35	4.6	0.70	4.7	0.60	3.82	0.14
Total (n = 102)	95.7	6.59	90.7	16.52	92.6	8.28	5.75	0.05

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[1] Address for correspondence Bárbara Guimarães Bastos, MSc, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Bauru School of Dentistry, Universidade de São Paulo, Al. Octávio Pinheiro Brisola, 9-75 Bauru/SP 17012-901, Brazil (e-mail: barbarabastos@gmail.com).