Psychological Resilience and Disaster Preparedness (disaster)
Psychological Resilience and Disaster Preparedness Among Parents of Children With Hearing Impairments: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Study Overview
Status
Detailed Description
Hearing plays crucial roles in communication, responding to environmental stimuli, ensuring safety, and increasing environmental awareness. Hearing impairment refers to the partial or complete loss of a person's hearing ability. Individuals with hearing impairment experience hearing or understanding difficulties differently from those with normal hearing abilities. The degree and effects of hearing impairment vary from person to person and can be congenital or acquired later in life. Congenital hearing impairment is often due to genetic or prenatal factors, while acquired hearing loss can result from various factors such as diseases, accidents, and infections.
Throughout their lives, individuals encounter numerous adverse, traumatic, anxious, and stressful events. The ability to recover and quickly return to normal life after such experiences is explained by the concept of psychological resilience in positive psychology. Psychological resilience, as defined by the American Psychiatric Association, is the ability to adapt, recover, and effectively cope with significant issues such as traumas, serious health problems, and financial difficulties.
Disaster preparedness plays a significant role in reducing losses and destruction in all disaster situations. Preparedness is closely related to the concepts of risk, threat, and vulnerability. Effective disaster preparedness plans are particularly critical for children with disabilities, who are especially vulnerable during disasters. Enhanced preparedness can mitigate the care disruptions that arise during disasters, and better planning can reduce the negative responses to disaster-related stress factors.
Parents of children with disabilities face high caregiving burdens and psychological challenges even without disasters. Studies show that these parents often experience feelings of frustration, helplessness, anger, and depression, highlighting the need for psychological support and relief from caregiving burdens. Effective family preparation plans and targeted education can benefit parents of developmentally disabled children, providing opportunities and methods for public health and safety planning, education, and access.
Resilience interventions supporting parents of children with cancer and other special needs have shown positive effects, including enhanced social connections and support among parents.Studies indicate that parents' levels of self-compassion, psychological resilience, and social support significantly impact their overall well-being.
Literature reviews reveal that studies often focus on the psychological resilience levels of parents with mentally disabled children, with findings emphasizing the need for support. However, there is a lack of research specifically examining the psychological resilience levels of parents with hearing-impaired children. This study aims to address this gap by evaluating the psychological resilience and disaster preparedness levels of parents with hearing-impaired children, thereby contributing valuable insights into how to assess resilience and preparedness for different disability groups.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Van, Turkey (Türkiye)
- Van Yuzuncu Yıl University
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Sampling Method
Study Population
Description
Inclusion Criteria
The inclusion criteria were as follows:
- Being a parent of a child receiving education at a school for the hearing impaired
- Being able to read and understand written Turkish sufficiently to complete the questionnaire independently
- Being willing to participate in the study Exclusion criteria
Participants were excluded if they:
- Were unable to complete the questionnaire independently due to cognitive, language, or communication difficulties
- Provided incomplete or inconsistent responses
- Declined to participate or withdrew during data collection
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
Cohorts and Interventions
Group / Cohort |
Intervention / Treatment |
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One grup
parents of hearing impaired children
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Descriptive information form, psychological resilience scale and disaster preparedness scale were completed by the parents of hearing impaired children.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
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psychological resilience scale
Time Frame: 6 monts
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The scale consists of a total of 21 items.
It is rated on a five-point Likert scale ranging from "Completely describes me (5)" to "Does not describe me at all (1)."
Higher scores indicate higher psychological resilience.
The scale comprises four sub-dimensions: Relational Resources, Individual Resources, Cultural and Contextual Resources, and Familial Resources.
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6 monts
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disaster preparedness scale
Time Frame: 6 monts
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The Disaster Preparedness Scale consists of 13 questions and 4 sub-dimensions.
The four factors are named as follows: Disaster Physical Protection (DPP), Planning (P), Disaster Aid (DA), and Disaster Warning and Signals (DWS).
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6 monts
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Descriptive information form
Time Frame: 6 monts
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Based on the existing literature, a 25-item questionnaire was developed to identify sociodemographic characteristics of mothers and children, such as age, gender, income level, presence of chronic diseases, number of children, and the family's place of residence.
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6 monts
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Abdullah Adıyaman, abdullah.adiyaman@erzurum.edu.tr
Study record dates
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Study Start (Actual)
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Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- YuzuncıYıl 3
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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