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Prevalence of Hearing Loss and Associated Factors in School-Age Individuals in an Urban Area of Northeast Brazil

Introduction  Hearing loss interferes in the development of language and verbal capacities, which causes learning difficulties and deleterious effects. Objective  To analyze the prevalence and associated factors for hearing loss in school-age individuals of the municipality of Natal, state of Rio Gr...

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Autores principales: Nunes, Aryelly Dayane Silva, Balen, Sheila Andreoli, Souza, Dyego Leandro Bezerra, Barbosa, Isabelle Ribeiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Revinter Publicações Ltda 2020
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7394619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32754245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-3400507
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author Nunes, Aryelly Dayane Silva
Balen, Sheila Andreoli
Souza, Dyego Leandro Bezerra
Barbosa, Isabelle Ribeiro
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Balen, Sheila Andreoli
Souza, Dyego Leandro Bezerra
Barbosa, Isabelle Ribeiro
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description Introduction  Hearing loss interferes in the development of language and verbal capacities, which causes learning difficulties and deleterious effects. Objective  To analyze the prevalence and associated factors for hearing loss in school-age individuals of the municipality of Natal, state of Rio Grande do Norte, Northeast Brazil. Methods  Cross-sectional study that evaluated 238 school-age individuals (6–17 years old) in municipal public schools. Meatoscopy was performed and school-age individuals answered the questions “Do you think that you hear well?” and “Do you have earaches?”. Auditory evaluation was performed with a Telessaúde audiometer. The responsible adults answered socioeconomic, speech and audiology aspects and risk factors for hearing loss questionnaire. Results  The prevalence of hearing loss was 16% (11.7–21.4%); 16% reported not to hear well, 18.9% reported earaches, and 26.1% presented altered meatoscopy. The prevalence of hearing loss was higher in school-age individuals who reported hearing difficulties, in children between the ages of 6 and 12, and with altered meatoscopy results ( p  < 0.05). Airway infection (PR = 3.37; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.48–7.68) was found as a risk factor associated with hearing loss, remaining significant in the multivariate model (PR = 6.79; 95%CI: 1.98–23.26; p  = 0.002). Conclusions  Hearing loss in this sample is above the values reported in other studies performed in Brazil for this age group. This highlights the necessity of better structure of speech and audiology attention, so that auditory health promotion actions can be systematized for this population.
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spelling pubmed-73946192020-08-03 Prevalence of Hearing Loss and Associated Factors in School-Age Individuals in an Urban Area of Northeast Brazil Nunes, Aryelly Dayane Silva Balen, Sheila Andreoli Souza, Dyego Leandro Bezerra Barbosa, Isabelle Ribeiro Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol Introduction  Hearing loss interferes in the development of language and verbal capacities, which causes learning difficulties and deleterious effects. Objective  To analyze the prevalence and associated factors for hearing loss in school-age individuals of the municipality of Natal, state of Rio Grande do Norte, Northeast Brazil. Methods  Cross-sectional study that evaluated 238 school-age individuals (6–17 years old) in municipal public schools. Meatoscopy was performed and school-age individuals answered the questions “Do you think that you hear well?” and “Do you have earaches?”. Auditory evaluation was performed with a Telessaúde audiometer. The responsible adults answered socioeconomic, speech and audiology aspects and risk factors for hearing loss questionnaire. Results  The prevalence of hearing loss was 16% (11.7–21.4%); 16% reported not to hear well, 18.9% reported earaches, and 26.1% presented altered meatoscopy. The prevalence of hearing loss was higher in school-age individuals who reported hearing difficulties, in children between the ages of 6 and 12, and with altered meatoscopy results ( p  < 0.05). Airway infection (PR = 3.37; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.48–7.68) was found as a risk factor associated with hearing loss, remaining significant in the multivariate model (PR = 6.79; 95%CI: 1.98–23.26; p  = 0.002). Conclusions  Hearing loss in this sample is above the values reported in other studies performed in Brazil for this age group. This highlights the necessity of better structure of speech and audiology attention, so that auditory health promotion actions can be systematized for this population. Thieme Revinter Publicações Ltda 2020-07 2019-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7394619/ /pubmed/32754245 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-3400507 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Souza, Dyego Leandro Bezerra
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title_fullStr Prevalence of Hearing Loss and Associated Factors in School-Age Individuals in an Urban Area of Northeast Brazil
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title_short Prevalence of Hearing Loss and Associated Factors in School-Age Individuals in an Urban Area of Northeast Brazil
title_sort prevalence of hearing loss and associated factors in school-age individuals in an urban area of northeast brazil
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7394619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32754245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-3400507
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