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Ear disease and hearing loss among navajo children – a mass survey
Author(s) -
Nelson Scott M.,
Berry Robert I.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1288/00005537-198403000-00005
Subject(s) - audiology , navajo , medicine , hearing loss , middle ear , ear disease , sensorineural hearing loss , microtia , surgery , philosophy , linguistics
A team of trained technicians in a specially equipped mobile van conducted a mass screening effort on the Navajo Reservation from 1978 to 1980 to detect and refer individuals with ear disease and hearing loss; 15,890 school children were examined. The prevalence data and correlations of hearing level with ear disease are presented: 4.0% of the children had TM perforations, 2.3% middle ear effusions, 1.9% TM atelectasis, and 0.4% had sensorineural hearing loss. Microtia was found in 1:935, with a cluster on the Western one‐fourth of the reservation. Cholesteatoma was rare. The patterns of ear disease are contrasted with other groups.