Objective Measurement of Listening Device Use and Its Relation to Hearing Acuity.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine whether adolescents exceed recommended noise exposure limits when using personal listening devices (PLDs) and to investigate the relationship between objectively measured PLD use and hearing thresholds.

Study design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

This study was embedded within an ongoing prospective birth cohort study in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Data were collected from May 2017 to September 2019.

Methods

A smartphone application was developed to measure daily noise exposure from PLDs. Listening habits were monitored among 314 adolescents with a mean age of 13 years 7 months (SD, 5 months), of whom 51.6% were male. Hearing acuity was measured by pure tone audiometry, and tympanometry was performed in both ears.

Results

Within the

SUBMITTER: Paping DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8892050 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature