Health Service Use in Children With Mild Bilateral and Unilateral Hearing Loss
Our findings provide a comprehensive profile of hearing-related services provided to a population-based cohort of early-identified children with MUHL. Children with mild bilateral loss required more audiology services than those with unilateral hearing loss. Two-thirds of the children with MUHL utilized some early intervention services. Use of hearing aid(s), bilateral hearing loss, progressive hearing loss, and earlier age of diagnosis result in more service utilization for both audiology and early intervention. Understanding the intensity of care use among various subgroups of children with hearing loss can shed light on the impact of these hearing losses and inform resource planning.
Authors
- Elizabeth M. Fitzpatrick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3422-4507)
- Nicholas Barrowman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4704-9595)
- Doug Coyle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-2268)
- Andrée Durieux-Smith
- Lamia Hayawi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0153-5926)
- Isabelle Gaboury (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2881-4714)
- Janet Olds (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9148-6426)
- Eunjung Na (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2871-2507)
- Marie Pigeon
- JoAnne Whittingham
- Flora Nassrallah
- Bahar Rafinejad-Farahani
Institutions
- Université de Sherbrooke (CA)
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CA)
- Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Ear and Hearing
- Published
- 2025-04-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001661
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.93