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Regression analysis was used to explore the potential reasons influencing the age at which first reliable behavioural audiograms were obtained. Correlation and ANOVA analyses were conducted to examine changes in hearing at octave frequencies between 0.5 and 4\u2005kHz. The proportions of hearing loss change, as well as the clinical characteristics of children with and without progressive hearing loss, were described according to two adopted definitions: Definition 1: criterion (1): a decrease in 10\u2005dB or greater at two or more adjacent frequencies between 0.5 and 4\u2005kHz, or criterion (2): a decrease in 15\u2005dB or greater at one octave frequency in the same frequency range. Definition 2: a change of \u226520\u2005dB in the average of pure-tone thresholds at 0.5, 1, and 2\u2005kHz.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The study revealed that 48 children (52.7% of the sample of 91 children) had their first reliable behavioural audiogram by 3 years of age. The mean age at the first reliable behavioural audiogram was 3.0 years (SD 1.4; IQR: 1.8, 4.1). We found a significant association between children's behaviour and the presence or absence of ongoing middle ear issues in relation to the delay in obtaining a reliable behavioural audiogram. When comparing the hearing thresholds at diagnosis with the first reliable behavioural audiogram across different frequencies, it was observed that the majority of children experienced deterioration rather than improvement in the initial impaired ear at each frequency. Notably, there were more instances of hearing changes (either deterioration or improvement), in the 500\u2005Hz and 1,000\u2005Hz frequency ranges compared to the 2,000\u2005Hz and 4,000\u2005Hz ranges. Seventy-eight percent (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200971) of children had hearing deterioration between the diagnosis and the first behavioural audiogram at one or more frequencies between 0.5 and 4\u2005kHz, with a high proportion of them (52 out of the 71, 73.2%) developing severe to profound hearing loss. When using the averaged three frequency thresholds (i.e., definition 2), only 26.4% of children (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200924) in the sample were identified as having hearing deterioration. Applying definition 2 therefore underestimates the proportion of children that experienced hearing changes. The study also reported diverse characteristics of children with or without hearing deterioration.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The finding that 78% of children diagnosed with UHL at birth had a decrease in hearing loss between the hearing levels at first diagnosis and their first behavioural audiogram highlights the importance of monitoring hearing threshold levels after diagnosis, so that appropriate intervention can be implemented in a timely manner. 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