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 DOI: 10.1111/t mi.13722

Tropical Medicine & International

Health
 RESEARCH ARTICLE

Volume 27, Issue 3 

Mar 2022
Association between hearing impairment, school performance

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Pages i-iv, 217-336

and cognitive function in children and adolescents with sickle cell

disease
ARTICLE

Association between hearing impairment, Joara Raiza Fontes Barros Bomfim1 | Carolina Orge Anunciação Bacelar1 |
school performance and cognitive function Marinho Marques da Silva Neto2 | Cristina Salles3,4 | Ana Marice Teixeira Ladeia3 |
in children and adolescents with sickle cell Mara Renata Rissatto- Lago1
disease

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College of Speech Therapy, Department of Abstract
the Life Science, State University of Bahia,
Sa lvador, Bra zi l Objective: To investigate the association among hearing impairment, school perfor-
Joara Raiza Fontes Barros Bomfim, Carolina Orge 2
Department of the Life Science, College of mance, and cognitive function in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease.
Anunciação Bacelar, Marinho Marques...da
See
Silva
all authors
Neto, Medicine, State University of Bahia, Salvador,
Brazil Methods: Thirty-one participants with sickle cell disease (SCD) and 31 healthy partici-
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 CITE Postgraduate Course in Medicine and
Human Health, Bahiana School of Medicine
pants in the control-comparison group (CG), both aged 8–17 years underwent auditory
and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil system evaluation (pure tone audiometry and acoustic ref lex), were screened for the risks
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© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Department of Otolaryngology, University of (central) auditory processing disorder and dysfunction of cognitive function using the
https://login.research4life.org/tacsgr1doi_org/10.1111/tmi.1372 Hospital Professor Edgar Santos, Federal
 University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil Scale of Auditory Behaviors (SAB) and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), re-
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Correspondence spectively, and were interviewed to obtain clinical data and data on school performance.
ISSN 1360-2276 Mara Renata Rissatto-Lago, State University Results: In the SCD group, eight (25.8%) participants presented with sensorineural hear-
of Bahia, Department of Life Science. Rua
eISSN 1365-3156 Silveira Martins 2555. Cabula, 41195-001, ing loss (SNHL). The group with SCD and SNHL presented a higher occurrence of poor
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Online 10 March 2022 Email mararissattolago@gmail.com school performance than the group of participants with SCD without SNHL (p = 0.016).
The MMSE score for aspects related to attention and calculation in the SCD group with
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SNHL was lower than in the SCD group without SNHL (p = 0.016). In the SAB, the SCD
group with SNHL presented a lower score than the SCD group without SNHL in aspects