Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil.
Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2013 Mar-Apr;79(2):226-32. doi: 10.5935/1808-8694.20130039.
Hearing loss is a sensory deprivation, which can brings several consequences, among them: language development delay, emotional and social problems, and school difficulties. In such settings, we stress the role of nursing professional, who can expand their knowledge about children's hearing health, all the way from pre-natal care.
To check the knowledge of nursing professional after the educational actions on pediatric hearing.
A quasi-experimental design with timeseries outline. We had 82 nursing professional participating (nurses, technicians and assistants) working in a university hospital between March and September of 2011. All of the interviewees answered a semi-structured questionnaire before and after the educational actions.
We observed a significant change in the knowledge of the nursing professionals after the educational activity in most of the variables; such as: ideal age to perform the newborn hearing screening; ideal age to diagnose hearing loss; ideal age to start intervention against hearing loss and risk indicators for hearing loss.
It is believed that the methodology used in educational activities, based on problems found in professional practice, education may have contributed greatly to increase knowledge about hearing health, especially concerning neonates and infants.
目的：通过教育活动评估护理人员对儿童听力健康的了解。
方法：采用准实验设计，时间序列研究。2011 年 3 月至 9 月，共有 82 名从事儿科护理工作的医护人员（护士、技师和助理）参与。所有参与者在教育活动前后均回答了半结构化问卷。
结果：教育活动后，护理人员在大多数变量（如新生儿听力筛查的理想年龄、听力损失诊断的理想年龄、开始干预听力损失的理想年龄以及听力损失的风险指标）方面的知识有了显著提高。
结论：教育活动中使用的方法基于专业实践中发现的问题，可能对提高护理人员对听力健康的认识做出了重大贡献，尤其是针对新生儿和婴幼儿。
