Audiological Characteristics of Individuals with Hearing Loss in Otolaryngology Setup: a Retrospective Study in India by A Navya in IGWHC in Lupine Publishers
Introduction: Hearing loss is hidden disability. Audio logical
characteristics of hearing loss varies depending on age, gender,
geographical location, socioeconomic status, occupational and other
causative factors may interact with each other.
Aim: The present study aimed at exploring the audio logical
characteristics of patients across the age range in both males and
females receiving services at Department of ENT at Netaji Subhash
Chandra Bose Medical College, India: A retrospective study.
Method: A retrospective case analysis was carried out by
reviewing 1189 registered cases of those who received services from
department of ENT at NSCB Medical College. The details of age, gender,
degree, type of hearing loss, and management were obtained.
Result: The results indicated that 30% of the patients
reported with complaints related to hearing were in the age range of
1829 years and only 7% were below 14 years. Among these 60.8% were males
and 39.1 % were females. The majority of patients were exhibiting
moderate (21%) hearing loss followed by mild (18.2%). A significant
number of patients (18.4%) do exhibited normal hearing sensitivity. The
type of the hearing loss in majority of these patients is conductive
hearing loss (48.3%) exhibiting flat configuration (64.2%) in the
audiogram. Hence, most of these patients underwent medical/surgical
treatment (73.8%) to avoid the spread of infection or disease further.
Some of the patients with irreversible hearing loss were recommended for
hearing aid usage (20.9) and cochlear implantation (5%).
Conclusion: The study focuses on highlighting the details of
various patients reporting to an otolaryngology set up exhibiting
different type and degree of hearing loss and the respective treatment
suggested and team work of an otolaryngologist and audiologist. The
study also concludes that awareness need to be increased among public to
identify children with mild and moderate hearing loss as the number of
children reporting to the clinic are very less compared to the adults.
Early intervention has major role in developing the speech and language
skills of the children.
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