Evaluación del nivel auditivo en niños de 6 a 7 años de las escuelas del centro del cantón Sigsig. 2017-2018

Abstract

BACKGROUND: With the early evaluation of the hearing will give a diagnostic, which will allow timely intervention and treatment in order to avoid language problems that, which in turn cause alterations in the social-emotional development of the child. GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the hearing level of students of 6 to 7 years of schools in the center of Cantón Sigsig. METHODOLOGY: Descriptive transverse court study, where hypoacusis was identified through the liminal tonal audiometry in children’s from6 to 7 years. The data analysis was performed using IBM SPSS statistics 15 software. Through Excel 2013 the tables were made with their respective analysis of frequency and percentage according to the variables of age, sex, location, degree and extent of hearing loss. RESULTS: Of a total of 84 patients who evaluates with otoscopy, 22.2 % (17) presented wax plug and 4.8% (4)infections. In the audiological evaluation with liminal tonal audiometry of 63 patients, 20.6% (13) had conductive hearing loss, 11.11% (7) for the female sex and 9.5% (6) for the male sex, according to the degree of hearing loss on 17.4 % (11) with mild hearing loss, 3.2% (2) moderate hearing loss and according to extension 11.1% (7) unilateral hearing loss and 9.5% (6) bilateral hearing loss. CONCLUSIONS: Teachers habitually confuse hearing loss with distracted and uncooperative children also do not know about the importance of a early diagnosis and treatment that will avoid problems in their schooling