{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,4]],"date-time":"2022-04-04T20:01:10Z","timestamp":1649102470716},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Pakistan Medical Association","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J Pak Med Assoc"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objective: To find out the common causes of hearing loss among young children, and to compare the causes along gender lines.\nMethod: The cross-sectional study was conducted from September 2020 to March 2021 at two government hospitals and one private clinic in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, and comprised children of either gender aged &lt;8 years with complaint of decreased hearing. They were examined and tested for hearing impairment. Data was analysed using SPSS 22.\nResults: Of the 328 subjects, 164(50%) each were girls and boys. The overall mean age was 4.20\u00b12.08 years. Sensorineural hearing loss was found in 178(54.3%), cases, conductive in 118(36%) and mixed type in 32(9.8%). Otitis media with effusion 89(27.1%) was the commonest cause of hearing impairment, followed by consanguinity 73(22.3%). There was no significant difference between the male and female children (p&gt;0.05).\nConclusion: Otitis media with effusion was the commonest cause of hearing impairment, followed by consanguinity. Gender had no significant role to play in this regard.\nKey Words: Hearing impairment, Children, Otitis media with effusion, Consanguinity, Bahawalpur.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.47391\/jpma.3879","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,23]],"date-time":"2022-02-23T08:21:31Z","timestamp":1645604491000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Common causes of hearing impairment among children less than 8 years of age in District Bahawalpur, Punjab Pakistan"],"prefix":"10.47391","author":[{"family":"Safdar Ali","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"family":"Muhammad Sikander Ghayas Khan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"family":"Laiba Zahid","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"26547","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,23]]},"container-title":["Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association"],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,23]],"date-time":"2022-02-23T08:21:32Z","timestamp":1645604492000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/ojs.jpma.org.pk\/index.php\/public_html\/article\/view\/3879"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,23]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.47391\/jpma.3879","relation":{},"ISSN":["0030-9982"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0030-9982","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,23]]}}}