Introduction Globally, more than 50 million children have hearing or vision loss. Most of
these sensory losses are identified late due to a lack of systematic screening, making …

Results CHWs screened 94.4%(8023/10 362) of eligible children at 271 centres at a cost of
5.63 United States dollars per child. The number of children who failed an initial hearing and …

Introduction Access to ear and hearing health is a challenge in developing countries, where
the burden of disabling hearing loss is greatest. This study investigated community-based …

Background: Hearing loss is one of the most common developmental disorders identifiable
at birth with its prevalence increasing throughout school years. However, early detection …

Background The majority of children with sensory impairments live in low-and middle-
income countries. More studies of hearing and vision impairment prevalence are needed, in …

Objective: Access to hearing care is challenging in low-and middle-income countries, where
the burden of hearing loss is greatest. This study investigated a community-based hearing …

Objective To establish the feasibility of a systematic, community health worker (CHW)‐based
hearing screening program that gathers Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act …

Background We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using minimally trained community
health workers (CHW) to screen schoolchildren in rural Nicaragua for hearing loss using a …

Objectives To compare outcomes of a community-based hearing screening programme
using smartphone screening audiometry operated by specialist (School Health Nurses …

Objective: To evaluate the performance of smartphone-based hearing screening with the
hearScreen™ application in terms of sensitivity, specificity, referral rates, and time efficiency …