Screening methods for childhood hearing impairment in rural Bangladesh.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine a feasible strategy for screening young children in rural Bangladesh for hearing impairments.

Methods: Trained community health workers (CHWs) screened 4003 children between the ages of 2 and 9 years using conditioned play audiometry (CPA) and a subset of 569 of these children (ages 2-5 years), using physiologic (otoacoustic emissions [OAEs] and tympanometry). Measures of frequency and cross-tabulations are presented to describe results.