Health Education Intervention on Hearing Health Risk Behaviors in College Students.

ABSTRACT: Young people, like college students, are at risk of hearing loss from prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds. However, behavioral interventional studies on them are inadequate. This study explored the application of a health belief model to the health education intervention on college students for improving hearing health knowledge, health belief, and hearing behaviors. From November 2017 to September 2018, a cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted, enrolling 830 college students, with 419 in the intervention group and 411 in the control group. The intervention group received a 3-month hearing health education, while the control group received no intervention. The information of hearing health knowledge, health belief, and hearing behaviors were collected using hearing h

SUBMITTER: Wang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7914527 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature