Community-based newborn hearing screening programme for early detection of permanent hearing loss in Iran: An eight-year cross-sectional study from 2005 to 2012

Firoozbakht, Mohsen; Mahmoudian, Saeid; Alaeddini, Farshid; Esmaeilzadeh, Mansour; Rafiei, M; Firouzbakht, Aryan; Rahimi, Farzad; Farhadi, Mohammad

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“…as well as other recent publications. [ 9 14 15 16 17 ] While our newborn pass rate of 56.7% reflects a lower than average pass rate, there are numerous factors that explain this. First, 63.3% of the newborn infants screened in this study were <24 h old, which is shown to be associated with a lower pass rate.…”

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Identifying the optimal age to perform newborn screening for hearing loss in Uganda

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Redshaw²,

Crossley³

et al. 2015

Ann Med Health Sci Res

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Background:Permanent congenital hearing loss affects up to 6/1000 births in developing countries. Currently, in Uganda there is no newborn screening for hearing loss (NSHL) program and no published work on this topic. Within the existing healthcare system there are two opportunities to deliver screening, at birth or 6 weeks of age when infants receive their immunizations.Aim:This study explored the outcomes of otoacoustic emission (OAE) testing in infants at birth and 6 weeks of age, to identify the optimal age for screening.Subjects and Methods:This cross-sectional pilot study recruited 60 consecutive infants from two health centres in Kampala, Uganda. Thirty infants were newborns recruited from the postnatal ward and 30 were aged 4–8 weeks from the immunization clinic, we performed OAE testing on all infants.Results:The results showed 56.7% (17/30) of newborn infants passed OAE testing compared with 90.0% (27/30) of the immunization infants, P < 0.01. Furthermore, of the 11 newborn infants aged ≥24 h of age 90.9% (10/11) passed, compared with the 19 infants <24 h of age where 37% (7/19) passed, P < 0.01.Conclusions:This study demonstrates a higher pass rate for OAE testing for infants ≥24 h of age compared to those <24 h of age. The overall lower pass rate of the newborn infants could be due to external ear debris and middle ear fluid compromising the OAE testing. These findings would support a NSHL programme in Uganda that offers screening to infants ≥24 h of age, to maximize the cost-effectiveness of the program.

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Identifying the optimal age to perform newborn screening for hearing loss in Uganda

Walsh¹,

Redshaw²,

Crossley³

et al. 2015

Ann Med Health Sci Res

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“…If it were not for the support of the WOŚP foundation, the introduction of a universal hearing screening program for Polish newborns, which had been planned by the Ministry of Health prior to 2001, would probably have been delayed or the Program would not have included the entire population of Polish-born neonates [7] In the latter case, the Program could not have been referred to as universal. In the former case, a multi-stage, prolonged introduction of the Program could have led to differences in the quality of hearing screening tests, not least due to an inadequate level of personnel training.…”

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“…Hearing impairment, which is detected on average in 3 out of 1,000 newborns [5,6,7,8], should be dealt with within the healthcare system. If undetected in the early stages of a child's development, hearing impairment causes delayed speech and language skills, which may lead to cognitive challenges and pose learning problems during school education; it also disturbs the normal course of the child's development and poses many challenges for the child's parents and others.…”

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Effectiveness of health-promoting activities in the area of general hearing screening tests in newborns in Poland

Lisiecka-Biełanowicz

Molenda

2019

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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Introduction. An analysis of the impact of health promotion efforts as part of the Polish Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening Program demonstrated diagnostic efficacy. The health promotion efforts had been efficiently implemented via a proper execution of this long-term Program by the Great Orchestra for Christmas Charity (WOŚP) foundation. Objective. The aim of the study was to demonstrate the impact of health promotion efforts by public benefit organizations by analyzing the WOŚP foundation's involvement in the Program in Poland during 2003-2015. Materials and method. Statistical data for 2003-2015 were obtained from the database of the Department of Otolaryngology and Laryngeal Oncology at Poznan University of Medical Sciences. The analyzed data included the rates of hearingimpairment detection (phase 1), diagnosis (phase 2), and treatment (phase 3) in the newborns included in the Program, as well as the documentation of expenditures based on WOŚP's foundation annual financial reports. Results. A total of 4,672,704 newborns were screened from 2003-2015, which amounted to approximately 360,000 screened patients per year. During the analyzed 12 years of the Program, the mean proportion of children who underwent screening was 96.1%, with an observable, gradual increase in the number of children undergoing diagnostic assessments (phase 2) for a suspected hearing impairment, with the largest amount of money having been allocated to the Program implementation and expended in its early stages. The total cost of financing the Program by the year 2015 was 51,841,712 PLN. Conclusions. The Polish Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening Program resulted in an improvement in the quality in the screening test, ensured more thorough diagnostics, and shortened the time needed to implement the appropriate treatment.

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“…1 This rate is reported to be 3 per 1000 among Iranian infants. 2 Approximately half a billion people affected by disabling hearing impairment which makes up about 6.8% of the world's population. These numbers are substantially very high and point to the growing importance of hearing impairment and global hearing health care.…”

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Acoustic Analysis of Crying Signal in Infants with Disabling Hearing Impairment

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Community-based newborn hearing screening programme for early detection of permanent hearing loss in Iran: An eight-year cross-sectional study from 2005 to 2012

Abstract: The study results suggest that the prevalence of hearing impairment in infants in Iran is comparable with that in developed and developing countries, and that the series TEOAEs/AABRs method used in the screening programme in Iran is efficient.

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Identifying the optimal age to perform newborn screening for hearing loss in Uganda

Identifying the optimal age to perform newborn screening for hearing loss in Uganda

Effectiveness of health-promoting activities in the area of general hearing screening tests in newborns in Poland

Acoustic Analysis of Crying Signal in Infants with Disabling Hearing Impairment

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