A recent study by researchers at the Medical Center of the Leiden University, Netherlands has reported that new born babies, who undergo hearing screening, are more likely to experience a better standard of living, in comparison to children, who undergo screening later on in life. The study will be published in the October 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The number of participants in the study was more than 570,000 babies, who were born in Netherlands between the years 2003-05. In the study, it was found that out of all the children, 400 were suffering from chronic hearing disorders.

Out of those 400 children, 300 infants were studied for a period of 3 to 5 years. In the 300 children, 183 infants had undergone hearing screenings, when they were newborns. While, 118 babies had undergone distraction hearing screening, which is performed somewhere around, when the baby is nine months old.

The study after keeping a track of the babies, found out that those babies, who had undergone screening when they were newborns had a better quality of life. The children who had undergone screening when they were newborns also had better communication skills.

The researchers involved in the study have stated that the possible reason behind the outcome of the study could be because the children had received aids earlier in their lives. They added that the new findings would further stress the importance of hearing screening programs that are initiated as the children are born.