What is it about?
Is the Hear Glue Ear app useful to children and their families?. Title: An evaluation of the Hear Glue Ear mobile application for children aged 2-8 years old with otitis media with effusion Published in Digital Health Journal 2020. A summary of the study: 60 families trialled the Hear Glue Ear app, 73% downloaded and used the app between appointments. Results showed statistically comparable estimate of hearing loss on HearGlueEar app home hearing screening game vs standard hearing screening.
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Why is it important?
The Hear Glue Ear app can be used to support children with Glue Ear (congestion of the middle ear) between appointments to stop them falling behind in their development. The app provides a hearing screen so that parents/carers can estimate their child’s hearing at home, and information for parents including speech and language therapy videos. The app also provides listening games, audiobooks and songs for children to develop listening skills, auditory processing skills and speech & language enrichment.
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This paper shows the benefit of an app in a clinical pathway. It shows the value of the Hear Glue Ear app to children and their parents/ carers.
Dr Tamsin Mary Holland Brown
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust & Cambridge University Hospitals
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This page is a summary of: An evaluation of the Hear Glue Ear mobile application for children aged 2–8 years old with otitis media with effusion, Digital Health, January 2020, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2055207620966163.
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