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تقييم ضعف السمع بين اطفال المدارس الابتدائية في مدينة الناصرية خلال عام 8102 == Hearing impairment among primary school children in Al - Nasiriya city during 2018
Author name:
علي عبد سعدوى الغزي
Supervisor name:
مشتاق نعمة المالكي
General topic:
Medicine
Specific topic:
Community Medicine
Degree:
Higher Diploma
University:
University of Thi-Qar - Faculty Of Medicine
Language:
English
University location:
Dhi Qar
First pages:
19T1659 - p.pdf
Abstract:
More than five percent of people in the world have disabling hearing loss . Children are thirty four millions from total four hundred sixty six million people with hearing loss . Hearing impairment among primary school children if remains unaddressed can significantly affect the academic performance of children and can result in poor psycho - social and intellectual development in children.so early detection and early intervention of hearing impairment in early childhood will ensure well - mental , social, communicational and educational development of children.Study objective : To estimate extent of hearing impairment among children of primary schools in Al - Nasiriya city and identify certain determinants .Methodology : Across - sectional and comparative school - based study was carried out through multistage systematic random sampling for 9 public primary schools in Al - Nasiriya city from1st of February/2018 - 3th of May /2018. Primary information was obtained through prepared questionnaires including the socio - demographic characters of studied pupils ,thorough otological history ; and clinical examination ( through direct observation ; and use of tuning fork test were conducted on all participants and screening audiometry was conducted for children with suspected hearing impairment). Then children with suspected hearing impairment were referred for AL - Habboby hospital to confirm the diagnosis of hearing loss by diagnostic audiometry and tympanometry and to know whether it was CHL or SNHL . The statistical analysis was done by using SPSS version 23 and tests of significance were used( x2 test and Fisher exact test ) , and the significant Probability value ≤ 0.05.Results : A total of 355 pupils were screened, 228(64.2%) of them were males and 127(35.8%) were female that ratio of male to female was 1.8 : 1. Nearly half of pupils were within 6 - 7 years at (55.2%) ,and least one were within age group >10 years (15.2%). Majority of pupils were within high socio - economic status (87.6%) , and the remaining were within moderateXIV(8.2%) - low class (4.2%). The extent of hearing impairment among pupils in Nasiriya city was 16% .Unilateral (9.2%) was more prevalent than bilateral (7%). of 58 pupils with HI , 24(41.4%), 23(39.7%) , 5(8.6%) , 4(6.9%) ,and 2(3.4%) had ear wax, otitis media with effusion , CSOM, ear wax ,and foreign body in external ear canal respectively.Of 58 pupils with hearing impairment,52(14.7%) of studied pupils had mild hearing impairment, and 6(1.7%) had moderate hearing impairment. Non showed moderately severe or sever or profound hearing loss.There was significant association between age , socio - economic status of studied population and Prevalence of hearing impairment by logistic regression analysis.Conclusion : The most affected pupils in our study were female gender , pupils aged > 10 years ,and with low socioeconomic status. Where univariate analysis shown statistical association of hearing impairment with sex , socioeconomic status, family size, ear discharge and otalgia. There was high prevalence of hearing impairment in comparable with other study. The study shown that most common ear diseases associated with hearing impairment were ear wax impaction and otitis media with effusion and the commonest degree
