Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Dergisi 2018 , Vol 61 , Num 3-4
Hearing screening program in school aged children in Malatya Province
Özlem Yılmaz *1 ,Cengiz Yakıncı *2 ,Erkan Karataş *3
1 İnönü Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Pediatri Araştırma Görevlisi, Malatya, Türkiye
2 İnönü Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Pediatri Profesörü, Malatya, Türkiye
3 İnönü Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Kulak Burun Boğaz Hastalıkları Profesörü, Malatya, Türkiye
Yılmaz Ö, Yakıncı C, Karataş E. (Department of Pediatrics, Department of Otolaryngology, Inonu University Faculty of Medicine, Malatya, Turkey). Hearing screening program in school aged children in Malatya Province. Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Dergisi 2018; 61: 59-66.

Hearing loss is the disability of detecting surrounding sounds due to the pathology of outer-middle-inner ear and acoustic nerves pathologies. The prevalence of hearing loss and risk factors in children with a mean age of 10±1 were. Eight hundred and twelve fifth grade students in primary schools were enrolled in Malatya Turkey between March 2018 and February 2019. Hearing screening was performed with Resonance R17A audiometry device and pure tone audiometry method. Twenty-four of the children failed the hearing test. Those children were further evaluated and hearing loss was detected in 11 of 24 (3%) children. These children were also evaluated by detailed examination and advanced tests and three of these children (27.2%) had very mild, four children (36.3%) had mild, two children (18.1%) had moderate, two children (18.1%) had severe and/or profound hearing loss. When risk factors were evaluated, it was found that complaint of a disease with fever (p = 0.02), repetitive ear disease (p = 0.03), history of hearing loss (p = 0.04), listening to loud television-listening music (p = 0.007), and having difficulties about hearing people talking (p = 0.004) were statistically significant risk factors for hearing test scans (p <0.05). The prevalence of hearing loss was 1.35% in school aged children for this study. Hearing screening program should be performed wide spread in preschool and school aged children after new born hearing screening program. Anahtar Kelimeler : hearing screening, school aged children

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