Estimated Prevalence of Noise-Induced Hearing Threshold Shifts Among Children 6 to 19 Years of Age: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988–1994, United States

Niskar, Amanda Sue; Kieszak, Stephanie; Holmes, Alice E.; Esteban, Emilio; Rubin, Carol; Brody, Debra J.

doi:10.1542/peds.108.1.40

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“…It has been observed that the prevalence of noise induced threshold shift increases with age, because of accumulated exposures over time. In a study it was found that children aged 12-19 years had a significantly higher prevalence estimate (15.5 %) than 6-11 year olds (8.5 %) [6].…”

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Assessment of Knowledge of Harmful Effects and Exposure to Recreational Music in College Students of Delhi: A Cross Sectional Exploratory Study

Gupta

Sharma

Singh

et al. 2013

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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Exposure to loud sounds results in a mild to profound degree of temporary or permanent hearing loss. Though occupational noise exposure remains the most commonly identified cause of noise-induced hearing loss, potentially hazardous noise can be encountered during recreational activities. Unfortunately not much attention is being given to the increasing trend of prolonged exposure to noisy environment, in the younger generation of Indians. The purpose of our study was to know the knowledge of college students about the harmful effects of loud music, prevailing practices with regard to exposure to recreational music and the subjective effects that this exposure is causing if any. Cross Sectional survey of College Students (n = 940), from randomly selected colleges of Delhi University. Majority of students listened to music using music-enabled phones; earphones were preferred and 56.6 % participants listened to music on a loud volume. Effects experienced due to loud sound were headache (58 %), inability to concentrate (48 %), and ringing sensation in the ear (41.8 %). Only 2.7 % respondents used ear protection device in loud volume settings. Twenty-three percent respondents complained of transient decreased hearing and other effects after exposure to loud music. 83.8 % knew that loud sound has harmful effect on hearing but still only 2.7 % used protection device. The survey indicates that we need to generate more such epidemiological data and follow up studies on the high risk group; so as to be able to convincingly sensitize the Indian young generation to take care of their hearing and the policy makers to have more information and education campaigns for this preventable cause of deafness.

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Assessment of Knowledge of Harmful Effects and Exposure to Recreational Music in College Students of Delhi: A Cross Sectional Exploratory Study

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Sharma

Singh

et al. 2013

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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“…Music at high intensity levels can be considered as continuous and unstable sound that may induce transient temporary hearing loss with temporal manifestations that can last minutes, hours, or days after the cessation of the intense stimulus, or that can be permanent due to repetitive exposure to noise 9 . Sound pressure levels in the ear become damaging at > 75dB (A) and painful at 120dB (A); the tolerance limit recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 75dB (A) 25 .…”

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Sensorineural hearing loss in high school teenagers in Mexico City and its relationship with recreational noise

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The aim of this study was to measure the frequency of hearing loss in a sample of typical public high-school students exposed to recreational noise, and determine associated risk factors. The sample was made up of 214 teenagers from a high-school in Mexico City; subjects were selected randomly per strata. We applied a questionnaire to identify risk factors for hearing loss and performed a battery of audiologic tests consisting of otoscopy, tympanometry, and pure-tone audiometry. The mean age of the sample was 16 ± 1.07 years; 73% were male and 27%, female. Hearing loss was found in 21% of students. The main hearing loss-related risk factor was exposure to recreational noise: frequent attendance at discotheques and pop-music concerts; use of personal stereos; and noise exposure in school workshops. The high frequency of hearing loss in high school students from one Mexico City school (nearly one fifth of the sample) was found to be related to noise exposure mainly during recreational activities.

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“…Insults such as noise exposure (30) and the sequelae of otitis media, possibly reducing middle ear conductivity, and/or causing sensorineural loss (31) are one class. We were careful to avoid the acute effects of otitis media in our measure of PTA, and statistical control for degree of childhood otitis media did not explain the effects observed, but this class of possibility must be considered.…”

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Variation in the Normal Hearing Threshold Predicts Childhood IQ, Linguistic, and Behavioral Outcomes

Welch

Dawes

2007

Pediatr Res

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Childhood hearing level varies considerably within the range considered normal. Four classes of outcome were investigated for associations with hearing thresholds in this range: ability to identify speech in noise, neurocognitive ability, linguistic ability, and behavior. The research was conducted in a general population cohort of 711 children with mean hearing threshold of 15 dB HL or better. Some outcomes: speech in noise, intelligence, and certain linguistic abilities, were predicted in both boys and girls; effects were stronger in girls. In girls only, poorer hearing predicted worse behavior. These effects remained after statistical control for childhood socioeconomic status and otitis media. Variability in normal hearing, due to causes other than otitis media, is associated with the listening, language, and neurocognitive abilities of children, and the behavior of girls. We suggest that these effects may be present for three reasons, cochlear insults, neurodevelopmental factors, and psychological factors. We discuss how these may interact to produce the effects observed. T he conventional cut-off for normal-range hearing in children is 15 dB HL (1); which includes 97% (711/734) of the general population sample assessed here. This includes a wide range of actual hearing abilities, and how it relates to psychosocial consequences in humans is unclear (2). Hitherto, research has concentrated on effects in people with relatively large hearing losses, with little attention paid to the effects of variability within the normal range. We investigated four areas for which we hypothesized effects of hearing level in normally hearing children. Identification of signals in noise.A relation between puretone detection and identification of signals in noise has been demonstrated in minimally hearing-impaired children (3). Variation in normal hearing may be due to vulnerable structures involved in the cochlear active process (4). Children with poorer normal hearing may be less able to identify signals in noise due to slight deterioration in these systems.Neurocognitive ability. Assessment of hearing threshold measures performance on a psychoacoustical task in which general neurocognitive ability might play a part, so variation in threshold might be related to IQ. Furthermore, a body of research has related sensory processing, in terms of inspection time, with IQ (5-7). Thus, there may be a relation between hearing and IQ.Linguistic ability. Children with minimal hearing impairment perform less well on tests of educational performance, particularly in areas related to language (8). Furthermore, those with poor linguistic abilities perform less well on tests of acoustic frequency and temporal resolution (9,10). These findings are with stimuli requiring a high degree of processing (11), however, simple detectability may contribute to the effects shown.Behavior. Little research has investigated behavioral concomitants of variation in hearing in children. In deaf people, there may be effects with depression and interp...

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Estimated Prevalence of Noise-Induced Hearing Threshold Shifts Among Children 6 to 19 Years of Age: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988–1994, United States

Cited by 345 publications

References 14 publications

Assessment of Knowledge of Harmful Effects and Exposure to Recreational Music in College Students of Delhi: A Cross Sectional Exploratory Study

Assessment of Knowledge of Harmful Effects and Exposure to Recreational Music in College Students of Delhi: A Cross Sectional Exploratory Study

Sensorineural hearing loss in high school teenagers in Mexico City and its relationship with recreational noise

Variation in the Normal Hearing Threshold Predicts Childhood IQ, Linguistic, and Behavioral Outcomes

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