Table 1. Studies of the Newborn Hearing Screening Program.
| Study | Author | Country | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feasibility of Establishing a Neonatal Hearing Screening Program and Measuring Hearing Loss Among Neonates in Dakahlia Governorate | El-Ella et al (2023) | Egypt | The incidence of hearing impairment was 4 per 1000 newborns screened. | (26) |
| In Pursuit of Successful Hearing Screening: An Exploration of Factors Associated with Follow-Up Return Rate in a Risk-Based Newborn Hearing Screening Programme | Kanji et al (2018) | South Africa | Results indicated a significant, but weak association between the hospital and whether or not infants returned for the repeat screening. The mean maternal age of mothers who returned with their newborns for diagnostic assessment was significantly higher than that of those who did not return. | (9) |
| Loss to Follow-up After Newborn Hearing Screening and Its Related Factors | Ghavamiet al (2022) | Iran | Among the mothers’ personal causes of loss to follow-up, the feeling of no need to follow up with 36.7% and fear of COVID-19 with 26.7% were the most common causes | (10) |
| Challenges of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in a Developing Country-a Double-Edged Sword | Jacob et al (2022) | India | The occurrence of hearing loss in this study population was 1.3 per 1000. Risk factors were noted in 38.9% of this subgroup with occurrence of hearing loss in ‘‘at risk’’ group being 3.32 per 1000. | (11) |
| Referral rate and false‑positive rates in a hearing screening program among high‑risk newborns | Thangavelu et al (2022) | Germany | Our study showed that the higher the birthweight or gestational age of the newborn, the lower the odds of the hearing screening results being false-positive, and the higher the chronological age of the infant at the time of screening, the higher the odds of the results being false-positive. | (12) |
| Comparison of newborn hearing screening results between well babies and neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit for more than 5 days: Analysis based on the national database in Korea for 9 years | Chang et al (2020) | Korea | The prevalence of hearing loss in infants who were hospitalized in NICU for more than 5 days was about seven times higher than that in healthy newborns. However, different referral rates were noted depending on both institutions and the screening methods | (15) |
| Evaluation of newborn hearing screening program in Jordan | Obeidatet al (2024) | Jordan | 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. | (16) |
| Neonatal Auditory Screening is a Necessity in The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Single Center Study | ElGindy et al (2022) | Egypt | (17) | |
| Neonatal hearing screening programme and challenges faced by the developing country: A tertiary care hospital experience | Pyarali et al (2023) | Pakistan | The current
study was planned to screen neonates to
diagnose any hearing impairment as part of a programmelaunched at health facility in Pakistan. |
(18) |
| Neonatal hearing screening: Challenges of COVID-19 pandemic | Rockwell et al (2023) | USA | One of the 15 newborns (2.3% of total) had a pending maternal COVID-19 test result at discharge, and this patient was also lost to follow-up. | (19) |
| SWOT analysis of Russian universal newborn hearing screening program | Kreismanet al (2024) | Russian | The developed strategies can increase timely audiological service to hearing impaired children and their families and to plan the necessary resources in the face of modern challenges. | (20) |
| Neonatal hearing screening programs: quality indicators and access to health services | Dutra et al (2022) | Brazil | hearing screening was not universal. Access to the Hearing Health Care Network presents high evasion and interventions were offered to children with hearing loss. | (21) |
| Newborn hearing screening in Eastern Saudi Arabia: A tertiary hospital experience. | Sulaiman et al (2024) | Saudi Arabia | Emphasizing the importance of the screening program is crucial to raising awareness and improving the accuracy of prevalence rates | (22) |
| Neonatal hearing rescreening in a second level hospital: Problems and solutions | Gómez-Delgado et al (2023) | Spain | This is particularly serious in outpatient children with impaired screening. Referral to out-of-town centers leads to unacceptable follow-up loss. Legislative support for all these rescreening issues is necessary. | (27) |
| The cost-effectiveness of newborn hearing screening program: New approach of Iran Ministry of Health and Medical Education in 2022 | Moradi-Joo et al (2024) | Iran | In this study, we evaluated the cost-effectiveness of the NHS program for detecting hearing impairment in over a million births in Iran. | (28) |
| Performance and characteristics of the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme in England: The first seven years | Wood et al (2015) | England | The age of identification and management is well within the first six months of life, although there remains scope for further improvement with respect to timely entry into follow up. | (29) |
| A universal newborn hearing screening program in Taiwan | Lin et al (2002) | Taiwan | The existence of many successful screening programs worldwide and the availability of fast, objective, reliable and inexpensive hearing screening procedures means that universal newborn hearing screening is becoming thestandard of care. | (30) |
| Status of newborn hearing screening program in India | Kumar et al (2011) | India | While keeping in mind the incidence of hearing impairment in the neonatal population of India, the results of this survey warrant the need for an urgent implementation of universal neonatal hearing screening in all thehealth care facilitiesin the country, at large. | (31) |
| Main outcomes of a newborn hearing screening program in Belgium over six years | Vos et al (2011) | Belgium | The motivation and commitment of the professionals have to be supported in a variety of ways to improve outcome measures and thus, the quality of the program. | (32) |
| The universal newborn hearing screening in Brazil: From identification to intervention | Bevilacquaet al (2011) | Brazil | in a country such as Brazil, which presents large socio-economic differences, the same type of analyses should be performed in several regions, so as to take into account specific aspects, to implement the newborn hearing screening along with the Public System. | (33) |
| Newborn hearing screening program in China: a narrative review of the issues in screening and management | Wenet al (2023) | China | A hearing screening and intervention system across the whole life course should be developed | (34) |
| The Milan Project: A newborn hearing screening programme | PASTORINO et al (2005) | Italy | Further improvement is obtained if the TEOAE measurements are repeated in cases of referral scoring before discharge. | (35) |