Mary T Antonelli, Ricardo Poza, Rachel Richards, Joan Vitello
Development of a master of science, nursing and interprofessional leadership program: AACN essentials in action
Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing
hearing loss prevalent significant disability impairs functional development educational attainment school children developing countries lack simple practical screening protocol often deters routine systematic hearing screening school entry identify predictors hearing loss practical screening model schoolaged children communitybased retrospective casecontrol study school entrants inner city results audiologic nonaudiologic examination 50 hearing impaired children randomly selected mainstream schools compared control group 150 normal hearing children matched age sex population nonaudiologic evaluation consisted medical history general physical examination anthropometry motor skills intelligence visual acuity audiologic assessment consisted otoscopy audiometry tympanometry multiple logistic regression analysis significant variables derived univariate analysis incorporating student ttest chisquare besides parental literacy or03 95 ci016068 nonaudiologic variables showed association hearing loss contrast audiologic indicators enlarged nasal turbinate or33 95 ci0981131 debris foreign bodies ear canal or54 95 ci103603 impacted cerumen or62 95 ci2121433 dull tympanic membrane or22 95 ci110446 perforated ear drum or243 95 ci293110017 otitis media effusion ome or142 95 ci6223309 associated hearing loss however parental literacy or03 95 ci016069 impacted cerumen or40 95 ci166943 ome or110 95 ci4742562 emerged predictors selective screening based identification impacted cerumen ome facilitate detection significant proportion hearing impaired school entrants