Does Otitis Media Affect Later Language Ability? A Prospective Birth Cohort Study

Autor/inn/en	Brennan-Jones, Christopher G.; Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Calder, Samuel D.; Da Costa, Cheryl; Eikelboom, Robert H.; Swanepoel, De Wet; Jamieson, Sarra E.
Titel	Does Otitis Media Affect Later Language Ability? A Prospective Birth Cohort Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63 (2020) 7, S.2441-2452 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Brennan-Jones, Christopher G.) ORCID (Swanepoel, De Wet)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Diseases; Young Children; Language Acquisition; Correlation; Language Skills; Receptive Language; Vocabulary Development; Verbal Ability; Predictor Variables; Hearing Impairments; Foreign Countries; Australia; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Disease; Krankheit; Frühe Kindheit; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Korrelation; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Wortschatzarbeit; Mündliche Leistung; Prädiktor; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Purpose: The aim of the study was to examine whether otitis media (OM) in early childhood has an impact on language development in later childhood. Methods: We analyzed data from 1,344 second-generation (Generation 2) participants in the Raine Study, a longitudinal pregnancy cohort established in Perth, Western Australia, between 1989 and 1991. OM was assessed clinically at 6 years of age. Language development was measured using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test--Revised (PPVT-R) at 6 and 10 years of age and the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals--Third Edition at 10 years of age. Logistic regression analysis accounted for a wide range of social and environmental covariates. Results: There was no significant relationship between bilateral OM and language ability at 6 years of age ([beta] = -0.56 [-3.78, 2.66], p = 0.732). However, while scores were within the normal range for the outcome measures at both time points, there was a significant reduction in the rate of receptive vocabulary growth at 10 years of age (PPVT-R) for children with bilateral OM at 6 years of age ([beta] = -3.17 [-6.04, -0.31], p = 0.030), but not for the combined unilateral or bilateral OM group ([beta] = -1.83 [-4.04, 0.39], p = 0.106). Conclusions: Children with OM detected at 6 years of age in this cohort had average language development scores within the normal range at 6 and 10 years of age. However, there was a small but statistically significant reduction in the rate of receptive vocabulary growth at 10 years of age (on the PPVT-R measure only) in children who had bilateral OM at 6 years of age after adjusting for a range of sociodemographic factors. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01