A language-independent hearing screening self-test at school-entry.

Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
31 Jan 2024
Historique:
received: 06 07 2023
accepted: 26 01 2024
medline: 1 2 2024
pubmed: 1 2 2024
entrez: 31 1 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The usage of a tablet-based language-independent self-test involving the recognition of ecological sounds in background noise, the Sound Ear Check, was investigated. The results of 692 children, aged between 5 and 9 years and 4 months, recruited in seven different countries, were used to analyze the validity and the cultural independence of test. Three different test procedures, namely a monaural adaptive procedure, a procedure presenting the sounds dichotically in diotic noise, and a procedure presenting all the sounds with a fixed signal-to-noise ratio and a stopping rule were studied. Results showed high sensitivity and specificity of all three procedures to detect conductive, sensorineural and mixed hearing loss > 30 dB HL. Additionally, the data collected from different countries were consistent, and there were no clinically relevant differences observed between countries. Therefore, the Sound Ear Check can offer an international hearing screening test for young children at school entry, solving the current lack of hearing screening services on a global scale.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53026-y PMID: 38297140
pubmed: 38297140
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-53026-y
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-53026-y
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

2582

Subventions

Organisme : TBM-FWO Grant - Research Foundation
ID : T002216N
Organisme : SPRUNG initiative
ID : of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, project "Data-driven health (DEAL)(Germany)

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Elien Van den Borre (E)

Department of Neurosciences, Research Group ExpORL, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49 Bus 721, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. elien.vandenborre@kuleuven.be.

Gaziz Tufatulin (G)

Center of Pediatric Audiology, St Petersburg, Russia.
North-Western State Medical University Named After I.I.Mechnikov, St Petersburg, Russia.
Scientific Research Institute of Ear, Nose, Throat and Speech, St Petersburg, Russia.

Lea Zupan (L)

Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, General Hospital Celje, Celje, Slovenia.

Nina Božanić Urbančič (N)

Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Limor Lavie (L)

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.

Inga Holube (I)

Institute of Hearing Technology and Audiology, Jade University of Applied Sciences, Oldenburg, Germany.

Vinay Swarnalatha Nagaraj (V)

Audiology Group, Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

Emre Gurses (E)

Department of Audiology, Faculty of Health Science, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.

Sam Denys (S)

Department of Neurosciences, Research Group ExpORL, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49 Bus 721, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Multidisciplinary University Center for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Astrid van Wieringen (A)

Department of Neurosciences, Research Group ExpORL, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49 Bus 721, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.

Jan Wouters (J)

Department of Neurosciences, Research Group ExpORL, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49 Bus 721, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.

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