Outcomes of an Early Childhood Hearing Screening Program in a Low-Income Setting.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Early identification of childhood hearing loss through newborn hearing screening mitigates permanent speech, language, and developmental delays, but many children are lost to follow-up or develop postnatal hearing loss. Early childhood hearing screening programs may help identify these children, but evidence on their outcomes is limited.

Objective

To assess outcomes from a low-income, preschool-based hearing screening program and risk factors for hearing loss in this population.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective cohort study of 6820 children aged 2 to 6 years from urban, low-income public preschools who received hearing screening from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2019, was performed using San Francisco Department of Public Health records. A mul

SUBMITTER: Brodie KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8855310 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature