Alexa Colgrove Curtis, Courtney Keeler
Diagnostic Studies: Measures of Accuracy in Nursing Research
The American journal of nursing
describe hearinghealth service use especially use telehealth early stages covid19 pandemic deafhardofhearing children 2020 victorian childhood hearing longitudinal databank surveyed 497 616 families deafhardofhearing children aged 04196 years 449 903 providing quantitative data 336 676 providing freetext comments covid19s impact service use access summarised quantitative data using descriptive statistics analysed freetext responses using inductive deductive reasoning 1152 services families used pandemic 711 62 accessed via telehealth parents reported several challenges facilitators service access pandemic particularly regarding telehealth parents reported child found telehealth appointments difficult 347665 521 worse quality 363649 559 compared inperson difficulties evident preschool schoolage children consideration factors implementing telehealth practice beyond pandemic would improve family experiences ensuring quality care