‘My Hearing Explained for Children’: Evaluating its use in clinic

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    ‘MY HEARING EXPLAINED FOR CHILDREN’: AN EVALUATION OF THE TOOL IN NHS CLINICAL PRACTICE

  • IRAS ID

    304068

  • Contact name

    Jacqueline Young

  • Contact email

    jacqueline.young@uhs.nhs.uk

  • Sponsor organisation

    University Hospitals Southampton (UHS) NHS Foundation Trust

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    1 years, 0 months, 1 days

  • Research summary

    Research Summary:
    It is important that children, their families and audiologists can talk about hearing loss in a way that they all understand. Doing this makes it easier to talk about a child’s hearing in daily life, the challenges they face, and the options available to help now and in the future.

    Unfortunately 6 out of 10 audiologists can find this conversation difficult and worry that it might take too long in clinic. The Ida Institute designed a tool to help this discussion. It is called ‘My Hearing Explained for Children’ (MHEfC). We want to find out how easy it is to use and what families and audiologists think of it.

    Our objectives are to:
    1. Train audiologists to use MHEfC
    2. Provide clinics for 70 children with hearing loss aged 8-11 years over an 8-month period, with half receiving standard care and half receiving standard care plus MHEfC
    3. Collect feedback from audiologists, children and their parent/carer using questionnaires to explore:
    • the acceptability, usability and feasibility of the MHEfC for children, parent/carers and audiologists;
    • the effect of MHEfC on child and parent/carer experience and satisfaction;
    • the effect of MHEfC on child understanding of their hearing loss and its management.
    • the effect of the MHEfC on audiologist’s experience and clinical practice
    4. Analyse and report on the appointment durations and the responses to the questionnaire using quantitative and qualitative methods.

    This single site study will take place at the Department of Audiology and Hearing Therapy at the University Hospitals Southampton Foundation NHS Trust. There are 3 groups of participants: Audiologists, children with hearing loss aged 8-11 years, and their parents/carers. All audiologists at the site and families attending routine review appointments will be offered the chance to participate.

    This study is funded by the Ida Institute

    Lay summary of study results: https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclick.pstmrk.it%2F3ts%2Fresearch.uhs.nhs.uk%252Fnews%252Fsouthampton-adopts-new-tool-to-support-children-with-hearing-loss%2FNBTI%2Fdm_4AQ%2FAQ%2F7d6405e2-e8bc-471f-904a-2c3ace583876%2F1%2Fgil2k6ZuPj&data=05%7C02%7Cpreston.rec%40hra.nhs.uk%7Cb6921596abb9490128f908dce3cbdc8e%7C8e1f0acad87d4f20939e36243d574267%7C0%7C0%7C638635711918375034%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YjoIsPv0duonVwA7jSOT9WEJCMMkiowkh0f2Ik2zmok%3D&reserved=0

  • REC name

    North West - Preston Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    21/NW/0268

  • Date of REC Opinion

    5 Oct 2021

  • REC opinion

    Favourable Opinion