Hearing health in Afro-Colombian victims of the armed conflict, survivors of improvised explosive device
Introduction: In 2002 an improvised explosive device exploded over a church with Afro-Colombian civilians sheltering there, generating a massacre. The survivors presented important health problems without a complete study to date. Objective: To establish the hearing health profile in the community o...
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| description | Introduction: In 2002 an improvised explosive device exploded over a church with Afro-Colombian civilians sheltering there, generating a massacre. The survivors presented important health problems without a complete study to date.
Objective: To establish the hearing health profile in the community of survivors of the "Bojayá Massacre", Chocó.
Methods: Based on clinical audiological evaluations with anamnesis, otoscopy, audiometry, speech audiometry and impedance in 61 survivors, a descriptive study was carried out including sociodemographic variables, risk factors, auditory signs and symptoms, and audiological diagnoses.
Results: 72,13 % of the participants were women. In addition to exposure to the explosion of an improvised explosive device, which affected indoors (78, 69 %), and in adjacent outdoors (3,28 %) or more distant locations, the main auditory risk factors found were previous infection of ears (26,87 %). 70,49 % suffered from tinnitus and 14,75 % from vertigo. 81,97 % of survivors (n=50) presented alterations in their hearing, without previous study. 81 % of those who encountered some degree of hearing loss reported a history of exposure to the blast within the closed space of the church.
Conclusions: The hearing health profile of the community of survivors of the Bojayá massacre, Chocó, was characterized by the presence of hearing difficulties, tinnitus, earache, vertigo, a history of acoustic trauma, and tympanic perforations. The main diagnosis found was bilateral conductive hearing loss. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bfe9fbde0dc14df3b1c1390b5dea563d2025-08-20T02:19:27ZspaEditorial Ciencias Médicas - ECIMEDRevista Cubana de Medicina Militar1561-30461561-30462021-05-01502e02101032e02101032409Hearing health in Afro-Colombian victims of the armed conflict, survivors of improvised explosive deviceDaisy Mariana Moreno Martinez0Zulma Consuelo Urrego Mendoza1Universidad Nacional de ColombiaUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaIntroduction: In 2002 an improvised explosive device exploded over a church with Afro-Colombian civilians sheltering there, generating a massacre. The survivors presented important health problems without a complete study to date. Objective: To establish the hearing health profile in the community of survivors of the "Bojayá Massacre", Chocó. Methods: Based on clinical audiological evaluations with anamnesis, otoscopy, audiometry, speech audiometry and impedance in 61 survivors, a descriptive study was carried out including sociodemographic variables, risk factors, auditory signs and symptoms, and audiological diagnoses. Results: 72,13 % of the participants were women. In addition to exposure to the explosion of an improvised explosive device, which affected indoors (78, 69 %), and in adjacent outdoors (3,28 %) or more distant locations, the main auditory risk factors found were previous infection of ears (26,87 %). 70,49 % suffered from tinnitus and 14,75 % from vertigo. 81,97 % of survivors (n=50) presented alterations in their hearing, without previous study. 81 % of those who encountered some degree of hearing loss reported a history of exposure to the blast within the closed space of the church. Conclusions: The hearing health profile of the community of survivors of the Bojayá massacre, Chocó, was characterized by the presence of hearing difficulties, tinnitus, earache, vertigo, a history of acoustic trauma, and tympanic perforations. The main diagnosis found was bilateral conductive hearing loss.http://www.revmedmilitar.sld.cu/index.php/mil/article/view/1032traumatismos por explosiónconflictos armadospérdida auditivagrupo de ascendencia continental africanaaudiología. |
| spellingShingle | Daisy Mariana Moreno Martinez Zulma Consuelo Urrego Mendoza Hearing health in Afro-Colombian victims of the armed conflict, survivors of improvised explosive device Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar traumatismos por explosión conflictos armados pérdida auditiva grupo de ascendencia continental africana audiología. |
| title | Hearing health in Afro-Colombian victims of the armed conflict, survivors of improvised explosive device |
| title_full | Hearing health in Afro-Colombian victims of the armed conflict, survivors of improvised explosive device |
| title_fullStr | Hearing health in Afro-Colombian victims of the armed conflict, survivors of improvised explosive device |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hearing health in Afro-Colombian victims of the armed conflict, survivors of improvised explosive device |
| title_short | Hearing health in Afro-Colombian victims of the armed conflict, survivors of improvised explosive device |
| title_sort | hearing health in afro colombian victims of the armed conflict survivors of improvised explosive device |
| topic | traumatismos por explosión conflictos armados pérdida auditiva grupo de ascendencia continental africana audiología. |
| url | http://www.revmedmilitar.sld.cu/index.php/mil/article/view/1032 |
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