Changing the Paradigm for School Hearing Screening Globally: Evaluation of Screening Protocols From Two Randomized Trials in Rural Alaska.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Diagnostic accuracy was evaluated for various screening tools, including mobile health (mHealth) pure-tone screening, tympanometry, distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE), and inclusion of high frequencies to determine the most accurate screening protocol for identifying children with hearing loss in rural Alaska where the prevalence of middle ear disease is high.

Design

Hearing screening data were collected as part of two cluster randomized trials conducted in 15 communities in rural northwest Alaska. All children enrolled in school from preschool to 12th grade were eligible. Analysis was limited to data collected 2018 to 2019 (n = 1449), when both trials were running and measurement of high frequencies were included in the protocols. Analyses included

SUBMITTER: Robler SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10262989 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul-Aug 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature