Pediatric otitis media in Fiji: Survey findings 2015

The effect of ventilation tube insertion to the health‐related quality of life in a group of children in Southeast Anatolia

“…While the surgical interventions are made according to the criteria mentioned above, the accuracy of the indications or the net effect of surgery can be evaluated with questionnaires assessing the quality of life. There have been some researches evaluating the QOL with OM6 scores after tube insertion . Similarly, in this study, the overall mean scores of OM6 before and after operation theatre which significantly changed are consistent with previously published researches based on QOL questionnaires within similar study populations …”

Prevalence of ear disease and associated hearing loss among primary school students in the Solomon Islands: Otitis media still a major public health issue

“…This prevalence rate is similar to that of an early study of school-age village children in Guam (19.7%) [35]. More recently, impacted wax was reported in 38.9% of ears (129/332 ears) of urban primary schoolchildren in Western Samoa [36], and 77 ears among 170 children with ear disease in Fiji [29]. The prevalence of CSOM in the present study was 3.1%.…”

“…study from Fiji where 69.6% of caregivers reported hearing difficulties for children with OME [29]. Among the LMICs literature, OME was also reported to be the most common ear pathology among students in a school-based study from Nigeria [30].…”

Prevalence of otitis media and risk-factors for sensorineural hearing loss among infants attending Child Welfare Clinics in the Solomon Islands

“…Fiji [25], and this may also be the case in the Solomon Islands where woodfire smoke from traditional cooking and burning of household waste is common. There is some evidence to suggest that Islander populations may have a greater genetic predisposition to OM, given that OME was present in 25.4% of 2-year-old Pacific Island children living in New Zealand (n=1001)…”