Measurement of hearing impairment among Greenlandic school-children: association between self-reported data and clinical examinations

• Published in: BMC Pediatrics
• Main Authors: Christina Schnohr, Jakob Schmidt Jensen, Cecilie Friis Skovsen, Preben Homøe, Birgit Niclasen, Ramon Gordon Jensen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2022
• Subjects: Hearing impairment; Prevalence; Measurement properties; Methodology; School-children; Greenland; Pediatrics; RJ1-570; Sisimiut; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-022-03673-9; https://doaj.org/article/4a3a64eef1e847b881d3c1a2e3899c91

Abstract Background Multiple ear infections is causing hearing impairment among children all over the world and the health and social consequences track into early adolescence and later in life, if not treated. The monitoring of prevalence in a population is important to assess the need for interven...