Screening of Newborn Hearing at a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India

Haridasan, Satish; Ramabhadraiah, Anil Kumar; Viswanatha, Borlingegowda

doi:10.1007/s12070-018-1454-9

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“…Out of the screened infants, 9.90% were referred for the 2 nd screening, which is comparable to findings in other studies. 5,6 Lost to follow-up for 2 nd screening was 25.49%, which was less than the default rate (33.9%) seen by Amirozi A. et al 8 High default rates would affect the quality and effectiveness of the program as it reduces the detection of newborns with hearing loss. Mukari et al found that four factors contributed to the high Default rates like poor follow-up protocol, lack of communication between the parents and screening personnel, lack of parent awareness regarding hearing loss and the need for early intervention, and problems in transportation.…”

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“…4 The incidence of congenital or early childhood onset sensorineural deafness or severe-to-profound hearing loss is estimated to be around 0.5-5 in every 1000 infants as shown in studies and surveys from different countries. [3][4][5][6][7][8] Over 5% (466 million people) of the world's population has disabling hearing loss (432 million adults and 34 million children). It is determined that one in ten people or over 900 million people will have hearing impairment by 2050.…”

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Prevalence of hearing impairment and outcome of universal neonatal hearing screening program in a tertiary care hospital – in UAE

Elhalik¹,

Dash²,

Faquih³

et al. 2021

JPNC

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Background and objective: Hearing loss is one of the most common congenital anomalies, occurring in 1 to 3 per 1000 newborn infants in the well-baby nursery population, and 2 to 4 per 100 infants in the Neonatal intensive care unit graduates. The aim of the study is to identify babies with potential hearing loss and direct them to early intervention and rehabilitation. The program also initiated to create awareness about the need for detecting childhood deafness among parents and general population. An estimate of coverage, prevalence and proportion of babies defaulting newborn hearing screening program and diagnostic evaluation monitored closely to find the effectiveness of the program. Study design: This is a retrospective study and was conducted at Latifa women and children’s hospital (LWCH), a tertiary care referral hospital at Dubai, United Arab Emirates, over a period of two years from January 2018 to December 2019. Neonates admitted in Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and Post Natal wards (PNW) were screened. We followed three tier approach of hearing screening. All eligible neonates were subjected to Transient Evoked Oto-acoustic emission (TEOAE) prior to discharge. Automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) hearing screening was conducted in neonates who did not pass TEOAE test. Infant who failed second screening (AABR) were subjected to comprehensive hearing evaluation prior to three months of age. Results: Out of the total 7923 neonates, 7895(99.65%) were screened and 118 (1.49%) newborns referred for comprehensive audiological evaluation. Among them, 27(0.34%) were identified with various degrees of hearing loss. The prevalence of hearing loss was found to be 0.16% and 0.92% among neonates from PNW and NICU respectively. Conclusion: Implementation of Universal newborn hearing screening program is the need of the hour, as early detection of Hearing loss will aid early rehabilitation and better outcomes.

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Prevalence of hearing impairment and outcome of universal neonatal hearing screening program in a tertiary care hospital – in UAE

Elhalik¹,

Dash²,

Faquih³

et al. 2021

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“…Outcomes in various domains of children like communication skills, education, behavior, family interaction, psychological health and quality of life can be improved if intervention is done in the first 6 months of life for the ones with moderate or greater permanent bilateral hearing loss. [ 9 ] Moreover, patients who managed with a cochlear implant at a younger age (<3 years) had a significantly better result than those treated later. [ 10 ] Pediatric HL is a major concern in India due to the high incidence of HL in this age, high birth rate, lack of facilities, and awareness for early diagnosis.…”

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Factors associated with deaf-mutism in children attending special schools of rural central India: A survey

Singh

Jain

2020

J Family Med Prim Care

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Background: Effects of hearing loss on the development of a child's ability to learn, to communicate, and to socialize can be devastating. If no auditory rehabilitation is done by peri-lingual period, the child develops permanent speech problems. The cases included in this category will be those having hearing loss more than 90 dB in the better ear or total loss of hearing in both the ears. Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA)/Auditory Brainstem response (ABR) has been established as the most reliable screening tool for hearing assessment in neonates. Objectives: To perform a questionnaire-based survey of parents of children attending special schools for deaf–mutism, to find out the major medical, socio-demographic, and health service-related risk factors for deaf–- mutism. To perform screening for all these children in special schools for deaf and mute to get the major cause leading to their deaf–mutism in a given rural area in central India. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was done with deaf and mute students from special schools. A questionnaire was used to assess any complications in the antenatal, perinatal, and postnatal period. Thorough otorhinolaryngologic clinical examination was carried out with special attention to branchial arch anomalies and BERA was done to evaluate the deafness in individual and appropriate response is mentioned. Result: This study concluded neonatal septicemia, prematurity, low birth weight, consanguinity, and birth asphyxia as the most common risk factor for deafness in children. In this study, waiting for improvement on behalf of parents and misguidance by doctors posed the most common additional risk factor for mutism. Financial constraint and taking the matter of lack of hearing lightly were the most important reasons, which forced parents to opt for special schools and their inability to utilize the benefit of the cochlear implant.

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“…Infant hearing loss will have a serious impact on speech, language, academic, and socio-emotional development and cause an economic burden [8]. All infants should undergo newborn hearing screening and a multi-staged protocol based screening for hearing loss [8,9]. Services of early intervention should be offered as early as 6 months of age [8].…”

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Effect of Health Education on Knowledge and Behaviour Towards Consanguineous Marriage and Infantile Hearing Loss

Thingujam

Sakthignanavel

Vengadakrishnan

et al. 2021

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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Awareness regarding consanguineous marriage and other risk factors of infantile hearing loss is essential for prevention, early detection and timely intervention which can save deaf children from lifelong consequences of hearing disability. A pre-post study was done among the general population of Puducherry, India to evaluate the effect of health education on knowledge and behaviour towards consanguineous marriage and infantile hearing loss. Individual direct interviews were done using a questionnaire to assess their awareness about consanguineous marriage and other risk factors of infantile hearing loss, its early detection and intervention. The assessment was repeated after a health education given for the same by direct interaction and pamphlets. The study showed that 65% participants were unaware of consanguinity being a risk factor for congenital hearing loss. More than half of them were unaware of other risk factors, neonatal hearing screening and treatment. Only 35.3% were aware that early identification and intervention enables a deaf child to learn optimum speech and language. Prior to health education, 33.7% were in support of consanguineous marriage whereas, after the health education, only 6.7% supported it showing significant improvement in their attitude towards consanguineous marriage. Post health education, there was overwhelming 100% improvement in their knowledge regarding infantile hearing loss. The study shows the poor awareness among the population of Puducherry regarding consanguineous marriage and infantile hearing loss, thus requiring a widespread sensitization about infantile hearing loss which can prevent lifelong consequences of the hearing disability.

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Screening of Newborn Hearing at a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

Prevalence of hearing impairment and outcome of universal neonatal hearing screening program in a tertiary care hospital – in UAE

Prevalence of hearing impairment and outcome of universal neonatal hearing screening program in a tertiary care hospital – in UAE

Factors associated with deaf-mutism in children attending special schools of rural central India: A survey

Effect of Health Education on Knowledge and Behaviour Towards Consanguineous Marriage and Infantile Hearing Loss

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