A comparison of an audiometric screening survey with an in-depth research questionnaire for hearing loss and hearing loss risk factors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We assessed the reliability of a hearing risk factor screening survey used by hearing conservation programmes for noise-exposed workers.

Design

We compared workers' answers from the screening survey to their answers to a confidential research questionnaire regarding hearing loss risk factors. We calculated kappa statistics to test the correlation between yes/no questions in the research questionnaire compared to answers from 1 and 5 years of screening surveys.

Study sample

We compared the screening survey and research questionnaire answers of 274 aluminum plant workers.

Results

Most of the questions in the in-company screening survey showed fair to moderate agreement with the research questionnaire (kappa range: -0.02, 0.57). Workers' answers to the s

SUBMITTER: Mosites E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5718840 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature