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- Title
Parent Perspectives of Ear Health and the Relationship with Children's Speech and Language in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children.
- Authors
Morrow, Anita; Orr, Neil; Nash, Kai; Coates, Harvey; Cross, Cara; Evans, John Robert; Gunasekera, Hasantha; Harkus, Samantha; Harrison, Linda; McLeod, Sharynne; McMahon, Catherine; Neal, Katie; Salins, Andrea; Macniven, Rona
- Abstract
Health and well-being are holistic concepts that are perceived to be inseparable for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We examined relationships between parent-reported ear symptoms for 787 Indigenous children at two time points (age 2–3 years, age 4–5 years) and two parent-reported speech and language outcomes one year later (age 5–6 years). Most parents (80.2%) reported no concern about their child's expressive language and (93.8%) receptive language. Binary logistic regression models examined ear health as a predictor of children's expressive and receptive speech and language adjusting for sociodemographic and health covariates. For children without parent-reported ear symptoms, there were lower odds of parental concern about expressive speech and language (aOR = 0.45; 95% CI 0.21–0.99) and receptive language (aOR = 0.24; 95% CI 0.09–0.62). Parents were less likely to have concerns about the child's expressive speech and language if their child was female, lived in urban or regional areas, had excellent or very good global health, or had no disability when aged 2–5 years. Since parent-reported ear health and speech and language concerns were related, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children could benefit from culturally safe, strength-based, and family-centered integrated speech, language, and ear health services.
- Subjects
EAR physiology; PARENT attitudes; TORRES Strait Islanders; CONFIDENCE intervals; HEALTH of indigenous peoples; LANGUAGE acquisition; SEX distribution; RESEARCH funding; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; COMMUNICATION; CHI-squared test; LOGISTIC regression analysis; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; METROPOLITAN areas; DATA analysis software; ODDS ratio; LONGITUDINAL method; SPEECH
- Publication
Children, 2023, Vol 10, Issue 1, p165
- ISSN
2227-9067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/children10010165