Adesão ao acompanhamento de crianças em um serviço de saúde auditiva: características demográficas e audiológicas

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Ano de defesa: 2012
Autor(a) principal: Borges, Edlayne Faustino lattes
Orientador(a): Novaes, Beatriz Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Caiuby
Banca de defesa: Não Informado pela instituição
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Fonoaudiologia
Departamento: Fonoaudiologia
País: BR
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Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11937
Resumo: Introduction: Since the foundation of The National Hearing Health Care Policy in 2004, the number of patients who have to return to the service for audiological and hearing aids monitoring procedures increase every year. With the objective to increase the adhesion of families to the process, a new scheduling procedure was performed by the Center for Hearing in Children CeAC, a high complexity hearing health care service for children, aiming at expediting the wait for consultation. Other objective was to perform the procedures faster and with the minimum need of returns. Objective: Indentify the reasons that make children return to CeAC, the characteristics of the subjects that search for the service and the factors responsible for the adhesion to the process. Methodology: Based on our selection criteria, 118 patients were elected and monitored during seven months. Results: We observed that 50,8% of the patients were female; 61% had a profound hearing loss in the best ear; 43,2% live in the southern districts of Sao Paulo; 72% were in therapy and, from this group, 56,5% were doing the therapy in a Basic Health Unity (UBS) and 80,5% were doing the whole therapy in AASI. Conclusion: It was observed that 90% of the patients returned to CeAC looking for reasons related to the procedures of the monitoring process. We also detected a decrease in adhesion to monitoring procedures among those patients who had larger chronological and hearing ages, suggesting the need of more attention to these aspects in the diagnostic stage and hearing aids adaptation. The results were not significant and we could not identify possible reasons related to adhesion to monitoring processes. It is suggested that an active search among those families who do not attend regularly to the service, would better identify reasons for dropping out or irregular attendance