Key result
Audiometric screening programs in schools are seen as having little value as a preventive measure for the early discovery of hearing loss and ear disease.
Why the study?
Do audiometric screening programs in schools effectively achieve early discovery of hearing loss and ear disease?
Do audiometric screening programs in schools effectively achieve early discovery of hearing loss and ear disease?
Audiometric screening in schools may have little value as a preventive measure, suggesting a shift towards primary prevention of ear disease determinants.
School audiometric screening may have limited preventive value; leaves open the need for primary prevention strategies targeting ear disease determinants.
After examination of the factors affecting the validity of audiometric tests in schools, screening programs are seen as having little value as a preventive measure because of their failure to reach their primary purpose, the early discovery of hearing loss and ear disease. The philosophy of screening is challenged and an approach of total prevention proposed that puts much more emphasis on primary prevention measures such as the control of determinants of ear disease and hearing loss in school-children.
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G. Lescouflair (1975) conducted a review in Hearing loss and ear disease. Audiometric screening was evaluated on Early discovery of hearing loss and ear disease. Audiometric screening programs in schools are seen as having little value as a preventive measure for the early discovery of hearing loss and ear disease.
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