Tingkat Ketepatan Audiometer Skrining Medan Bebas untuk Mendeteksi Gangguan Dengar Anak Sekolah Dasar dengan Otitis Media

Hearing skrining in school children can detect hearing loss due to otitis media earlier therefor treatment will give better outcome. Portable screening audiometer is a device which are simple, less expensive, brief, easy to use and has shorter examination time but has not been measured its accuracy for hearing screening in elementary school children. The objective of this study was to measure the accuracy of portable screening audiometry for detecting hearing loss in elementary school children with otitis media. A diagnostic test study with cross-sectional method was conducted at Sejahtera Elementary School and at Out-patient Clinic Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Department Dr. Hasan Sadikin Hospital Bandung period June until August 20011. From 479 children, there were 86 children match with inclusion criteria. Hearing loss was found in 56 children examined using portable screening audiometer and in 51 children using pure tone audiometry. Diagnostic test result for portable screening audiometer were 90.2% sensitivity, 71.4% specificity, with Kappa index 0.630 and p value was 0.302 compared to pure tone audiometry. In conclusion, the accuracy of portable screening audiometer is as good as pure tone audiometry in order to detect hearing loss in elementary school children with otitis media