Proactive Counselling Towards Follow-ups in Newborn Hearing Screening

Prince of Songkla University

Overview

The study aims to investigate if proactive parental educating and counselling can minimize loss to follow-ups of parents whose infant fail newborn hearing screening.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Conditions

Hearing Loss Newborn Morbidity

Interventions

counsellingOTHER

Educating and Counselling with personal communication for 10-15 minutes and written information about the importance of early identification and intervention for hearing loss are provided by a physician. Also, the information about hearing screening results and an appointment date are provided by a physician.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * The parents whose infants do not pass hearing screening Exclusion Criteria: * The parents whose infants have illnesses and are not ready for hearing screening * The parents who decide to migrate to other areas

Locations (1)

Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University

Hat Yai, Changwat Songkhla, Thailand

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Number of participants with loss to follow-ups in all participants whose infants require follow-ups

A loss to follow-up rate which is calculated from number of participants with loss to follow-ups divided by number of all participants whose infants require follow-ups

Time frame: 6 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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