Parent perceptions of children’s leisure and the risk of damaging noise exposure.
Date
2014Author
Carter, Lyndal
Black, Deborah
Bundy, Anita
Williams, Warwick
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The purpose of this study was to survey the attitudes of parents of adolescent children (with, and without, hearing impairment), with the following objectives: (1) compare perceptions of the parent groups regarding the risk of leisure-noise-related hearing injury; and (2) investigate how comfortable parents felt endorsing their child's participation in a range of everyday leisure activities, some which may involve noise exposure. Cross-sectional cohort study. Experimental group - parents of adolescents (aged 13 - 18 years) with hearing impairment (HI group) n = 53. Control group - parents of age-matched youths with non-impaired/’normal hearing’ (NH group) n = 70. Rasch modelling was applied to evaluate the internal validity and reliability of the leisure attitudes items. Rasch-generated interval-level data and raw ordinal-level data were used to identify systematic differences between groups.