Obeidat Faten S, Alothman Noura, Alkahtani Rania, Al-Najjar Sameer, Obeidat Mohammad, Ali Asia Y, Ahmad Elham, Alghwiri Alia A
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Department of Health Communication Sciences, College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Front Pediatr. 2024 Jul 11;12:1420678. doi: 10.3389/fped.2024.1420678. eCollection 2024.
The Newborn Hearing Screening (NHS) program was officially launched in Jordan in 2021. Since its inception, no studies have examined the effectiveness of the program. This study seeks to assess the effectiveness and outcomes of the NHS program in Jordan.
A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the program coverage rate, referral rate, loss to follow-up rate and the hearing status of newborns who successfully completed the necessary diagnostic assessment. Live births in all hospitals administered by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Jordan from July 2021 to November 2023 were included.
Out of 25,825 newborns delivered, 99.4% (25,682) were screened. A referral rate of 0.7% (189) was recorded. Approximately 61.9% of those referred ( = 117) had normal hearing, while 31.7% (60 infants) were diagnosed with hearing loss. The prevalence of congenital hearing loss was 0.14%, and the mean age for identifying hearing loss was 11 months.
The current status of the NHS program in Jordan is promising. The program has achieved most benchmarks recommended by the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH), demonstrating encouraging outcomes. There is a need to investigate and address the factors causing delays in the identification of hearing loss in Jordan.
新生儿听力筛查（NHS）项目于2021年在约旦正式启动。自启动以来，尚无研究对该项目的有效性进行检验。本研究旨在评估约旦NHS项目的有效性和成果。
开展一项回顾性横断面研究，以调查项目覆盖率、转诊率、失访率以及成功完成必要诊断评估的新生儿的听力状况。纳入了2021年7月至2023年11月期间约旦卫生部管理的所有医院的活产儿。
在25825例分娩的新生儿中，99.4%（25682例）接受了筛查。记录的转诊率为0.7%（189例）。转诊者中约61.9%（n = 117）听力正常，而31.7%（60例婴儿）被诊断为听力损失。先天性听力损失的患病率为0.14%，识别听力损失的平均年龄为11个月。
约旦NHS项目的现状令人鼓舞。该项目已达到婴儿听力联合委员会（JCIH）推荐的大多数基准，显示出令人鼓舞的成果。有必要调查并解决约旦导致听力损失识别延迟的因素。
