Table 2.
Age at fitting of hearing aids (AgeHA) and age at cochlear implant activation (AgeCI) are shown together with language scores at age five years for children. Percentage of children who received hearing aids (HA) by age 6 months and children who received cochlear implants (CI) by age 12 months are shown separately for children who were screened or not screened.
| HA at age 5 years | CI at Age 5 years | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Screened (n=174) | Non-screened (n=47) | Difference p | Screened (n=84) | Non-screened (n=20) | Difference p | |
| Male sex, n (%) | 97 (55.7%) | 30 (63.8%) | 0.41 | 41 (46.5%) | 5 (25.0%) | 0.09 |
| Add Disab, n (%) | 49 (31.3%) | 21 (47.7%) | 0.06 | 23 (31.9%) | 2 (11.1%) | 0.14 |
| AgeHA mean (SD) | 9.1 (8.9) | 19.1 (10.7) | <.001* | 4.0 (4.2) | 12.9(6.3) | <.001* |
| AgeHA (median, IQR) | 5.1 (2.6–12.2) | 21.3 (9.2–28.6) | 2.5(1.8–4.1) | 12.8 (7.4–18.2) | ||
| Age HA <6mos, n (%) | 97 (55.7%) | 9 (19.1%) | <.001* | 70 (83.3%) | 3 (15.0%) | <.001* |
| AgeCI (median, IQR) | 13.04 (9.7–19.2) | 20.9 (16.3–26.1) | ||||
| AgeCI <12mos, n (%) | 37 (44.0%) | 2 (10.0%) | 0.01* | |||
| Language, mean | 80.5 | 77.9 | 72.5 | 71.5 | ||
| SD | 24.7 | 25.3 | 28.9 | 24.1 | ||
| n | 176 | 64 | 86 | 38 | ||
| 95% CI | 22.4, 27.6 | 21.6, 30.7 | 25.2, 34.0 | 19.6, 31.2 | ||
#
Add Disab refers to presence of additional disabilities
*
marks significance at .05 probability level.