Middle ear and hearing disorders of schoolchildren aged 7–10 years in South Sinai, Egypt

Yamamah, Gamal; Mabrouk, Ali A.; Ghorab, Eman A.; Ahmady, M; Abdulsalam, Hissah K. Al

doi:10.26719/2012.18.3.255

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“…In the present study, the most observed alteration in the meatoscopy was excessive cerumen, which is reported in literature as one of the most frequent causes of alterations in preschool and school-age children 1 . Recent studies have found that the presence of excessive cerumen in the EAC was the most common alteration found in students [20][21][22] , which complies with the results in this study. However, in other researches 10,11,23,24 , there the prevalence of excessive cerumen was a higher than in this study.…”

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Triagem auditiva escolar: identificação de alterações auditivas em crianças do primeiro ano do ensino fundamental

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Resumo: OBJETIVO: caracterizar o perfil audiológico de escolares do primeiro ano do Ensino Fundamental da rede municipal da cidade de Caxias do Sul-RS, investigando e identificando a ocorrência de alterações auditivas nesta população, por meio de medidas eletroacústicas. MÉTODOS: estudo transversal, prospectivo, descritivo e quantitativo de 391 escolares do primeiro ano do Ensino Fundamental de escolas municipais da cidade de Caxias do Sul-RS. Os estudantes foram submetidos a quatro procedimentos audiológicos na Triagem Auditiva Escolar: Meatoscopia, Emissões Otoacústicas Evocadas por Estímulo Transiente, Emissões Otoacústicas - Produto de Distorção e Timpanometria. Além disso, os responsáveis pelas crianças responderam a um questionário com perguntas referentes ao desenvolvimento e aos antecedentes otológicos de cada criança. Os escolares que apresentaram alguma alteração auditiva na Triagem Auditiva foram encaminhados para avaliação otorrinolaringológica e/ou avaliação audiológica completa. RESULTADOS: das 782 orelhas avaliadas, 85,4% apresentaram normalidade nos exames realizados e 14,6% demonstraram algum tipo de alteração. Na Meatoscopia, verificou-se que 6,3% das orelhas apresentaram alterações. Passaram nas Emissões Otoacústicas Evocadas por Estímulo Transiente 94,8% das orelhas e nas Emissões Otoacústicas - Produto de Distorção 95,8%. Na Timpanometria, a curva predominante foi a tipo A, seguida pela tipo C. Foram realizados encaminhamentos para 14,6% dos escolares. CONCLUSÃO: a população desse estudo foi composta, em sua maioria, por escolares do gênero masculino, com seis anos de idade. Das 782 orelhas avaliadas, 85,4% apresentaram normalidade nos exames realizados e 14,6% demonstraram algum tipo de alteração.

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“…Thakur et al in which they reported that hearing loss was more in males than in females 27 . Regarding wax, prevalence was found more in girls 143 (26.19%) than in boys 95 (17.40%) which was similar to the study findings of G. Yamamah et al in which they reported that ear wax is more frequent in girls than in boys 28 .…”

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“…A study conducted by Thakur et al reported that hearing impairment was found in 2% among children under 15 years of age 27 ,which is close to our study findings. Further in a study conducted in Saudia Arabia reported prevalence of hearing loss in school children of 6-12 years of age was 4.4% 28 .…”

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Prevalence of Amraz-E Gosh (Otological Diseases) and Associated Risk Factors Among Secondary Level School Children in the Field Area of Nium, Bangalore

Aslam¹,

Zulkifle²,

Rashid³

et al. 2017

J Biol Sci Opin

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Preventable otological diseases/conditions have been found to be significant health problem amongst children. The most common ear problems found among school children are impacted wax, acute and chronic suppurative otitis media, hearing impairment and foreign bodies etc . The present study was a cross sectional conducted in 546 school children of either gender upto 8th standard in age group of 5-15 years for ear diseases/conditions, in three selected schools in the field area of NIUM, Bengaluru, in one year duration. A pretested and semi structured questionnaire was designed in such a manner that more information regarding demographic profile, assessment of various otological diseases/disorders and associa ted risk factors in children could be collected. The present study revealed that 352 (64.47%) were found having otological conditions. Among them otological conditions were found in 121 (34.37%) and 231 (65.62%) in age group of 5-10 and 11-15 years respectively. Out of total number of enrolled students 319 (58.42%) were girls and 227 (41.58%) were boys. Among them otological conditions were found in 212 (60.23%) girls and in140 (39.77%) in boys. In the present study otological conditions were found more in females than males and more affected children were from l ower socioeconomic status. The present study showed that female gender, higher age group and lower socioeconomic status were the risk factors for various otological conditions. Further it was revealed that there was strong relationship between otological conditions and school children; it was also revealed that some risk factors, like female gender, higher age group and lower socioeconomic status are directly related to otological conditions in school children.

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“…In a similar study done by Yamamah et al [11] out of 10.8 % cases of OME 8.5 % cases were having mild to moderate hearing loss and only 0.4 % cases were having severe hearing loss. On radiological examination, it was seen that 34.3 % children had adenoid grade 1, 35.8 % had grade 2 and 36.8 % had grade 3 adenoid hypertrophy.…”

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confidence: 53%

Preventive Audiology: Screening for Hearing Impairment in Children Having Recurrent URTI

Sharma

Pannu

Arora

et al. 2015

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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A late detection of hearing impairment in children can affect speech and language development. Otitis media with effusion (OME) associated with risk factors like recurrent upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) is considered the most common cause of silent hearing impairment among children. So this study was carried out to screen such at risk children for hearing impairment. The study was conducted on 1000 children in the age group of 2-12 years who presented to the OPD of ENT and Pediatrics Department, Govt Medical College with the complaint of recurrent URTI. The children were screened by history taking, general physical examination and local ENT examination. This was followed by impedance audiometry and pure tone audiometry (PTA, wherever indicated). Children with discharging ears and perforated tympanic membrane (TM) were excluded from the study. The most common presenting complaint was nasal discharge (67.9 %), followed by mouth breathing (66.3 %) and snoring (65 %). Only 16.2 % cases actually complained of some hearing impairment on exploratory history indicating the silent nature of OME. On examination 52.65 % cases had a normal looking TM whereas 41.2 % had a dull retracted TM. Results of impedance audiometry showed Type A graph in 56.75 %, Type B in 33.4 % indicating OME and Type C in 9.85 % indicating Eustachian tube dysfunction. PTA showed a mild conductive hearing loss in 26.7 % cases. OME is quite prevalent in high risk children and incidence of OME resulting in silent hearing impairment is quite high especially in young children having recurrent URTI. Impedance audiometry has been proved to be an objective screening tool for the same with a diagnostic accuracy of 87 % and thus under preventive audiology, it has a definite role in young children having recurrent URTI.

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Middle ear and hearing disorders of schoolchildren aged 7–10 years in South Sinai, Egypt

Cited by 27 publications

References 14 publications

Triagem auditiva escolar: identificação de alterações auditivas em crianças do primeiro ano do ensino fundamental

Triagem auditiva escolar: identificação de alterações auditivas em crianças do primeiro ano do ensino fundamental

Prevalence of Amraz-E Gosh (Otological Diseases) and Associated Risk Factors Among Secondary Level School Children in the Field Area of Nium, Bangalore

Preventive Audiology: Screening for Hearing Impairment in Children Having Recurrent URTI

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