PREVALENCE OF CHRONIC SUP
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 75
Abstract
BACKGROUND Otitis media is an inflammation of the middle ear cleft. It is known to be one of the most common childhood infections. Children from developing countries having unfavourable environment witness an extraordinary high incidence of severe episodes of otitis media. The objective of the study is to determine the prevalence of chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) in schoolchildren of Patiala district. MATERIALS AND METHODS A simple random sampling method was used to obtain the selected sample size of 1224 children from one urban and three rural government schools of adjacent villages of Patiala district of Punjab, India. RESULTS The children were aged 5–15 years. The prevalence rate of CSOM was found to be 1.41% in the urban schoolchildren and 5.45% in the rural schoolchildren. The difference was statistically significant. Unilateral disease was found to be most prevalent (78.95%). Of the studied cases, 86.84% had tubotympanic disease. Active disease was observed in 36.8% of the cases. CONCLUSION It can be said that CSOM is still an important cause of morbidity. This study shows that the prevalence of CSOM is higher in rural schoolchildren than that in urban schoolchildren. Health education, improvement in socioeconomic status and healthcare facilities is required to reduce the prevalence and prevent disability among schoolchildren
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Imrinder Kaur, Goyal J. P, Dalbir Singh
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