Dehnert, Knut and Raab, Ulla and Perez-Alvarez, Carmelo and Steffens, Thomas and Bolte, Gabriele and Fromme, Hermann and Twardella, Dorothee (2015) Total leisure noise exposure and its association with hearing loss among adolescents. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY, 54 (10). pp. 665-673. ISSN 1499-2027, 1708-8186
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Objective: To investigate total leisure noise exposure among adolescents and to assess its association with hearing. Design: Based on self-reported time spent on 19 leisure activities and associated mean sound pressure levels reported in the literature, total leisure noise exposure was evaluated and compared to noise at work limits (> 85 dB(A) = hazardous) in a cross-sectional survey. Tympanometry and pure-tone audiometry was performed in sound isolated rooms. Study sample: The study sample consists of 2143 pupils attending grade nine in any school in a German city 2009-2011 (mean age: 15.4 years; range: 13-19 years). Audiometric data were available for 1837 (85.8%) pupils (53.9% girls). Results: 41.9% of the 2143 adolescents who had provided self-reported data on leisure activities associated with noise exposure were estimated to be hazardously exposed to leisure time noise. The interaction of gender with total leisure time noise exposure was not significant. No association between leisure time noise exposure and audiometric notches could be detected. Conclusion: While hearing loss seems seldom in this age group, a high proportion of adolescents aged 15-16 years are exposed to noise levels during leisure time bearing long-term risks of hearing loss.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ELECTRONIC ARCADE GAMES; THRESHOLD SHIFTS; LISTENING DEVICES; ACOUSTIC TRAUMA; PREVALENCE; DAMAGE; DISCOTHEQUES; CHILDREN; HAZARD; OHRKAN; Adolescent; hearing loss; noise; leisure time |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 16 May 2019 12:41 |
| Last Modified: | 16 May 2019 12:41 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/4637 |
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