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Audiological Risk Factors, Referral Rates and Dropouts: 9 Years of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in North Sardinia
Background: Objectives of the present work were to analyze the prevalence of hearing loss in our population of screened newborns during the first 9 years of the universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) program at University Hospital Sassari (Italy) (AOU Sassari), to analyze the risk factors involv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9497641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36138671 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9091362 |
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author | De Luca, Laura Maria Malesci, Rita Gallus, Roberto Melis, Andrea Palmas, Sara Degni, Emilia Crescio, Claudia Piras, Maria Lucia Arca Sedda, Maria Francesca Canu, Giovanna Maria Rizzo, Davide Olzai, Mauro Giorgio Dessole, Salvatore Sotgiu, Giovanni Fetoni, Anna Rita Bussu, Francesco |
author_facet | De Luca, Laura Maria Malesci, Rita Gallus, Roberto Melis, Andrea Palmas, Sara Degni, Emilia Crescio, Claudia Piras, Maria Lucia Arca Sedda, Maria Francesca Canu, Giovanna Maria Rizzo, Davide Olzai, Mauro Giorgio Dessole, Salvatore Sotgiu, Giovanni Fetoni, Anna Rita Bussu, Francesco |
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description | Background: Objectives of the present work were to analyze the prevalence of hearing loss in our population of screened newborns during the first 9 years of the universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) program at University Hospital Sassari (Italy) (AOU Sassari), to analyze the risk factors involved, and to analyze our effectiveness in terms of referral rates and dropout rates. Methods: Monocentric retrospective study whose target population included all the newborns born or referred to our hospital between 2011 and 2019. Results: From 2011 to 2019, a total of 11,688 babies were enrolled in our screening program. In total, 3.9‰ of wellborn babies and 3.58% of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) babies had some degree of hearing loss. The most frequently observed risk factors among non-NICU babies were family history of hearing loss (3.34%) and craniofacial anomalies (0.16%), among NICU babies were low birth weight (54.91%) and prematurity (24.33%). In the multivariate analysis, family history of hearing loss (p < 0.001), NICU (p < 0.001), craniofacial anomalies (p < 0.001), low birth weight (<1500 g) (p = 0.04) and HIV (p = 0.03) were confirmed as risk factors. Conclusions: Our data are largely consistent with the literature and most results were expected, one relevant exception being the possible role of NICU as a confounding factor and the limited number of risk factors confirmed in the multivariate analysis. |
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spelling | pubmed-94976412022-09-23 Audiological Risk Factors, Referral Rates and Dropouts: 9 Years of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in North Sardinia De Luca, Laura Maria Malesci, Rita Gallus, Roberto Melis, Andrea Palmas, Sara Degni, Emilia Crescio, Claudia Piras, Maria Lucia Arca Sedda, Maria Francesca Canu, Giovanna Maria Rizzo, Davide Olzai, Mauro Giorgio Dessole, Salvatore Sotgiu, Giovanni Fetoni, Anna Rita Bussu, Francesco Children (Basel) Article Background: Objectives of the present work were to analyze the prevalence of hearing loss in our population of screened newborns during the first 9 years of the universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) program at University Hospital Sassari (Italy) (AOU Sassari), to analyze the risk factors involved, and to analyze our effectiveness in terms of referral rates and dropout rates. Methods: Monocentric retrospective study whose target population included all the newborns born or referred to our hospital between 2011 and 2019. Results: From 2011 to 2019, a total of 11,688 babies were enrolled in our screening program. In total, 3.9‰ of wellborn babies and 3.58% of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) babies had some degree of hearing loss. The most frequently observed risk factors among non-NICU babies were family history of hearing loss (3.34%) and craniofacial anomalies (0.16%), among NICU babies were low birth weight (54.91%) and prematurity (24.33%). In the multivariate analysis, family history of hearing loss (p < 0.001), NICU (p < 0.001), craniofacial anomalies (p < 0.001), low birth weight (<1500 g) (p = 0.04) and HIV (p = 0.03) were confirmed as risk factors. Conclusions: Our data are largely consistent with the literature and most results were expected, one relevant exception being the possible role of NICU as a confounding factor and the limited number of risk factors confirmed in the multivariate analysis. MDPI 2022-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9497641/ /pubmed/36138671 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9091362 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article De Luca, Laura Maria Malesci, Rita Gallus, Roberto Melis, Andrea Palmas, Sara Degni, Emilia Crescio, Claudia Piras, Maria Lucia Arca Sedda, Maria Francesca Canu, Giovanna Maria Rizzo, Davide Olzai, Mauro Giorgio Dessole, Salvatore Sotgiu, Giovanni Fetoni, Anna Rita Bussu, Francesco Audiological Risk Factors, Referral Rates and Dropouts: 9 Years of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in North Sardinia |
title | Audiological Risk Factors, Referral Rates and Dropouts: 9 Years of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in North Sardinia |
title_full | Audiological Risk Factors, Referral Rates and Dropouts: 9 Years of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in North Sardinia |
title_fullStr | Audiological Risk Factors, Referral Rates and Dropouts: 9 Years of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in North Sardinia |
title_full_unstemmed | Audiological Risk Factors, Referral Rates and Dropouts: 9 Years of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in North Sardinia |
title_short | Audiological Risk Factors, Referral Rates and Dropouts: 9 Years of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in North Sardinia |
title_sort | audiological risk factors, referral rates and dropouts: 9 years of universal newborn hearing screening in north sardinia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9497641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36138671 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9091362 |
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