title: Newborn and infant hearing health education for nursing professionals.
abstract: Hearing loss is a sensory deprivation, which can brings several consequences, among them: language development delay, emotional and social problems, and school difficulties. In such settings, we stress the role of nursing professional, who can expand their knowledge about children's hearing health, all the way from pre-natal care.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To check the knowledge of nursing professional after the educational actions on pediatric hearing.
  
  
  METHODS
  A quasi-experimental design with timeseries outline. We had 82 nursing professional participating (nurses, technicians and assistants) working in a university hospital between March and September of 2011. All of the interviewees answered a semi-structured questionnaire before and after the educational actions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We observed a significant change in the knowledge of the nursing professionals after the educational activity in most of the variables; such as: ideal age to perform the newborn hearing screening; ideal age to diagnose hearing loss; ideal age to start intervention against hearing loss and risk indicators for hearing loss.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is believed that the methodology used in educational activities, based on problems found in professional practice, education may have contributed greatly to increase knowledge about hearing health, especially concerning neonates and infants.
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Camila Padilha
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Barbosa
authors.forename: Juliana Barbosa
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Aires
authors.forename: Isabela Yasmin dos Santos
authors.initials: IY
authors.lastname: Farias
authors.forename: Francisca Márcia Pereira
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Linhares
authors.forename: Silvana Maria Sobral
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Griz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005260:Female; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007318:Inservice Training; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015997:Neonatal Screening; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult