Prevalence of extended high-frequency hearing loss among adolescents from two rural areas in Colombia
| Autor: | Juan Manuel García, Daniel Peñaranda, Nancy Suetta-Lugo, Diana C Hernández, Ilene Perea, Augusto Peñaranda, Mario Jacome, Sergio Moreno-López, Lucía C Pérez-Herrera |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Linguistics and Language
medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Hearing loss Extended high-frequency audiometry Colombia Audiology Adolescents Language and Linguistics 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing 0302 clinical medicine Prevalence otorhinolaryngologic diseases Humans Medicine Child Hearing Loss High-Frequency 030223 otorhinolaryngology High frequency hearing loss medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Auditory Threshold Cross-Sectional Studies Audiometry Pure-Tone Rural area Audiometry medicine.symptom business Rural population 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Repositorio U. El Bosque Universidad El Bosque instacron:Universidad El Bosque |
| ISSN: | 1708-8186 1499-2027 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14992027.2020.1828631 |
| Popis: | Objective: Worldwide research trends on the prevalence of hearing loss within young rural populations are scarce. Current evidence suggests extended high-frequency audiometry could be a sensitive predictor to detect subclinical hearing loss. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of hearing loss through conventional pure tone (0.25–8 kHz) and extended high-frequency (9–20 kHz) audiometry tests in a group of adolescents aged 13 to 19 years old from two rural areas of Colombia. A sociodemographic and associated factor for hearing loss questionnaire was applied. Design: Cross-sectional study. Study Sample: Three hundred sixty-six adolescents aged 13 to 19 years old from two rural municipalities in Colombia: Soracá, and Palmas del Socorro. Results: Hearing loss prevalence assessed through pure tone audiometry was 3.28% in right ears and 3.83% in left ears while through extended high-frequency audiometry was 14.21% and 13.11%, respectively. Associated factors found by the logistic regression were age (OR: 1.36; CI 95% 1.13-1.64) and obesity (OR: 3.74; CI 95% 1.07-13.11). Conclusions: Using 15 dB as the normal hearing threshold parameter for audiometric frequencies, our results suggest that extended high-frequency hearing loss is already widespread among rural adolescents. This highlights the need for research on extended high-frequency audiometry in rural school-aged children. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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