A Study on Attitudes Toward Noise Exposure and Risk Factors for Hearing loss among College Students
ZHU Huiru
LIU Jiayun
MU Yi
XU Jinhui
LI Jiaqi
HUANG Haiyi
JIANG Wen
Abstract：Objective To report possible factors influencing attitudes towards noise and hearing loss among col-lege students.Methods The Youth Attitude Towards Noise Scale(YANS)was used to survey 708 college students,of whom 209 were randomly selected for hearing tests.Ordered Logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors re-lated to attitude toward noise and hearing loss.Results Questionnaire survey results showed that age and wearing head-phones while studying appeared to be significant factors affecting attitudes towards noise(P<0.05),while volume and the duration of headphones use per day were not(P>0.05).College students in the 17-18 age group and those who wore headphones while studying were more likely to regard noise as a harmful thing than older students and those who did not use headphones.Audiological test results showed that negative attitudes toward noise from youth cultures were asso-ciated with lower risks of failing the high-frequency DPOAE test.The prevalence of hearing loss was 2.39%in our sam-ple,although the possibility of hidden hearing loss reached 48.53%.Conclusion From this exploratory study,it appears that age and wearing headphones while studying may be important factors affecting attitudes towards noise among col-lege students,and youth cultures related attitudes to noise factors may affect hidden hearing loss.Therefore,education aimed at promoting awareness of noise hazards and hearing protection among college students remains to be important.
Keywords：college studentsnoise attitudeshidden hearing loss
Publication Date：2024-02-28
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 114-118 )