Introduction: Occupational exposure to excessive noise is commonly encountered in a large number of industries in Iran. This study evaluated the hearing threshold and hearing loss in Meybod tile factory workers. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 371 tile factoryworkers during summer and autumn of 2005. Current noise exposure was estimated using sound level meter .A specially formatt...

Hearing disability is common among children as well as create problems for the child's personal and social development issues for parents on how they would. For overcoming these issues, programs and preventive interventions should be performed The purpose of this paper was to use analytical methods - deductive, explained the causes of hearing loss and related issues, patterns of parenting in ra...

Background: Hearing is one of the most significant senses There fore, any defect can be frightening. The incidence of sever hearing loss following coronary artery bypass surgery has been estimated as one per thousand. This Prospective study carried out to determine hearing effects of coronary artery bypass surgery.Methods: age, audiometric changes before and after surgery (hearing levels at mul...

ABSTRACT The goal of this study was determining the frequency distribution of hearing loss among the students of public elementary schools of Urmia .This Cross – sectional descriptive study was done in Public elementary schools of Urmia in academic year 1378 – 79 Hijri Solar. Three thousand ears of 1500 students (750 girls and 750 boys, chosen randomly at two stages) from the primary school stu...

Introduction: Based on the results of some studies, concurrent exposure to organic solvents and noise in industrial areas can accelerate the amount of hearing loss. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of concurrent exposure to organic solvents and noise on high frequency hearing loss. Method: This was a cross-sectional analytic study conducted on 1029 tire manufacturing company wo...