Prevalence of Noise Induced Hearing Loss in Indian Air Force Personnel

PREVALENCE OF NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS IN EMPLOYEES IN SHIRAZ INDUSTRIAL FACTORIES

Prevalence of noise induced hearing loss among traffic police personnel of Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

BACKGROUND Noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a major preventable occupational health hazard. OBJECTIVE To measure permanent threshold shift in traffic police personnel due to noise exposure and to examine whether it was associated with duration of noise exposure, years of work and risk factors. METHODS Cross sectional, descriptive study conducted at Dhulikhel hospital, Kathmandu Universi...

THE EFFECT OF NOISE-INDUCED HEARING LOSS ON DENTISTS

This paper presents noise problems associated with the use of air-turbine drills in dental practice. Two hundred and fifty dentists (male and female) were randomly selected from the faculty of dentistry as well as the dentists who worked private in Tehran. The results indicated that the mean value of sound pressure level produced by the high-speed drills was 69.1 db. Most of the energy from...

Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in the Police Force

BACKGROUND Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a major preventable occupational health problem with 250 million people worldwide known to have disabling impairment of moderate to greater severity. The aims of the study are to estimate the prevalence of NIHL in the police force; and study its association with age, sex, duration of service (years), smoking and alcohol habits, use of hearing prot...

Prevalence of noise-induced hearing loss in student musicians.

This study describes the prevalence and characteristics of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in student musicians (N = 329) aged 18-25 years. Students completed a questionnaire regarding exposures before a hearing assessment. NIHL was defined by the presence of a notch 15 dB in depth at 4000 or 6000 Hz relative to the best preceding threshold. Overall prevalence of NIHL was 45%, with 78% of not...