Early detection of hearing loss: exploring risk-based hearing screening within a developing country context
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2016
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Kanji, Amisha
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Purpose: The main objective of the current study was to explore risk-based new-born hearing screening within a developing country by conducting early hearing detection in high-risk neonates within an academic hospital complex in Gauteng, South Africa. Specific objectives describing the case history factors and audio logical function in a group of high-risk determining the relationship between the case history factors and audio logical establishing the true-positive (TP) and true-negative (TN) results with different combinations of screening measures; establishing the percentage of TP and NT screening results in the total sample; and exploring the factors associated with follow-up return rate for hearing screening and diagnostic audio logical assessment.
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A research thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Audiology in the Faculty of Humanities
the University of the Witwatersrand
March 2016.
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Kanji, Amisha (2016) Early detection of hearing loss: exploring risk-based hearing screening within a developing country context, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/22321>