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ArticleInternational journal of audiology2016

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

Emily Mosites, Richard Neitzel, Deron Galusha, Sally Trufan, Christine Dixon-Ernst, Peter Rabinowitz

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Article in International journal of audiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Emily Mositesa Department of Epidemiology , University of Washington , Seattle , WA , USA.
Richard Neitzelb Department of Environmental Health Sciences , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , MI , USA.
Deron Galushac Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine , Yale University , New Haven , CT , USA.
Sally Trufane Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences , University of Washington , Seattle , WA , USA.
Christine Dixon-Ernstd Alcoa, Inc. , Pittsburgh , PA , USA , and.
Peter Rabinowitze Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences , University of Washington , Seattle , WA , USA.

Funding

Daily Exposure Monitoring Intervention to Prevent Hearing LossR01OH008641 · OH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI NEITZEL, RICHARD L, RABINOWITZ, PETER MACGARR · 2007 to 2015
$4.3M
NIOSH CDC HHS R01 OH008641
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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

designWe 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.

resultsMost 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 screening survey had better correlation with the research questionnaire when we compared 5 years of screening answers. For nearly all questions, workers were more likely to respond affirmatively on the research questionnaire than the screening survey.

conclusionsHearing conservation programmes should be aware that workers may underreport hearing loss risk factors and functional hearing status on an audiometric screening survey. Validating company screening tools could help provide more accurate information on hearing loss and risk factors.

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MetallurgyAdultAluminumAudiometry, Pure-ToneFemaleHearing Loss, Noise-InducedHumansMaleMass ScreeningMiddle AgedNoise, OccupationalOccupational DiseasesReproducibility of ResultsRisk FactorsSurveys and QuestionnairesAluminumbehavioural measuresdemographics/epidemiologyHearing conservationnoise

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PMCPMC5718840

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