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Hearing Screening among First-Grade Children in Rural Areas and Small Towns in Małopolskie Voivodeship, Poland
- Source :
- Audiology Research, Vol 11, Iss 25, Pp 275-283 (2021), Audiology Research, Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 25-283
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- Undiagnosed hearing deficits hamper a child’s ability to learn. Hearing screening in school aged children helps detect educationally significant hearing loss and prevents negative impacts on academic achievement. The main purpose of this study was to improve early detection and assess the incidence of hearing disorders in first-graders from rural areas and small towns in the Małopolskie Voivodeship of Poland. There were 5029 children aged 6–7 years. Hearing thresholds were measured over the frequency range 0.5–8 kHz. A result was considered positive (abnormal) if the hearing threshold was worse than 20 dB HL at one or more frequencies. The prevalence of hearing loss was estimated in terms of four-frequency hearing loss, high-frequency hearing loss, and low-frequency hearing loss. Parents filled in a brief audiological questionnaire. The analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics, version 24. Of all the children, 20.5% returned a positive result and were referred for further audiological diagnoses. The estimated prevalence of hearing loss was 11.6%, made up of 6.5% with FFHL, 7.6% with HFHL, and 8.2% with LFHL. This study showed that large numbers of children in the district had hearing problems. Adoption of hearing screening in primary schools is recommended as a routine procedure within preventive pediatric health care.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Hearing loss
prevalence
Academic achievement
Audiology
Article
Hearing screening
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
school screening
medicine
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
030223 otorhinolaryngology
hearing loss
School age child
Absolute threshold of hearing
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Otorhinolaryngology
RF1-547
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Pure tone audiometry
medicine.symptom
Rural area
pure tone audiometry
business
hearing screening
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20394349
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Audiology Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a2e945ceefe9706fcacc7fdac1b1a465