DIFFERENCE IN HEARING TRESHHOLD BEFORE AND AFTER MEDICAL TREATMENT AT OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION

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This study discusses the differences in hearing threshold before and after medical treatment in patients with effusion otitis media. This research is an experimental study with pre and post test design with 17 ears of respondents. The results showed that respondents with mild hearing loss were 17.6%, moderate hearing loss was 41.2%, and severe impairment was 41.2%. After treatment, there was 5.9% hearing loss, 29.4% mild heraing loss, 41.2% hearing loss and 23.5% severe ones. The average hearing threshold before doing medicamentosa was 55.19 ± 16.25 dB and after 48.44 ± 14.78 with p value = 0.001.