Pattern of aural morbidity among children in a rural tertiary care hospital
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Pharmacy (IOSRPHR) - Year 2013, Vol 3, Issue 7
Abstract
To study the pattern of aural morbidity among the paediatric population attending the ENT OPD of our hospital.Methods:DESIGN: Observational study with a cross-sectional design SETTING: Tertiary government rural teaching hospitalPARTICIPANTS: All patients upto 15 years of age attending the ENT OPD during the study period RESULTS: In our study, out of 3095 patients, 2062 were under the age of 15 years. Maximum patients (36.47%) were within 0-5 years of age. Out of them, 1036 patients (50.24%) were male and rest 1026 patients (49.76%) were female with a male female ratio of 1.01:1. Majority of patients were Hindu (53.98%), rest 44.72% patients were Muslim and 1.3% were Christian. Chronic suppurative otitis media (37.54%) was the most common ear pathology detected. 84.37% patients had tubo-tympanic type and rest (15.63%) were having atticoantral type of disease. Other diseases were impacted wax (19.64%), external otitis (15.13%), ASOM (9.84%), otomycosis (8.1%), F.B. inside the ear (5.24%), OME (3.93%), preauricular sinus (0.53%) and anotia with congenital aural atresia (0.05%).CONCLUSION: Ear diseases are one of the major health problems among children. Chronic suppurative otitis media followed by wax impaction and acute otitis media is the most common ear diseases in children attending the ENT OPD. Increasing awareness about ear diseases should be one of the goals of all health care providers. Improvement of health care facilities and awareness amongst health care providers would definitely be helpful in reducing the prevalence of ear diseases in developing countries like us
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Bijan Basak, Gautam Dhar
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