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Headphones and Noise Research of Tinnitus Problem among Young People / 耳機與噪音對年輕族群耳鳴問題之研究

碩士 / 國立屏東大學 / 特殊教育學系碩士班 / 104 / This retrospective questionnaire study is focused on the relationships between the earphone use, environmental noise and the tinnitus of the young population. We collected 31 patients, among 15 to 40 years old who ever visited the otorhinolaryngologic outpatient clinic in southern Taiwan for the problems of tinnitus and the hearing. All patients ever used the earphone and exposed to the environmental noise. The patients diagnosed to have the pathologies of the external ear, middle ear, inner ear or the central auditory system after the physical examination and a series of hearing tests were excluded from the study. All participants competed the inform consent, the patient assent and the parental permission for the teenagers. The questionnaires including the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (Huang, 2001), Noise Exposure Rating Scale (Zheng, 2010) and Subjective Tinnitus Analogue Scale (Li, 2005). All analyses were performed using SPSS software (version 17.0). Testing for the association was performed using t test, analysis of variance and Pearson’s correlation coefficient.
The main results are:
(1)Severe disabilities of tinnitus was associated with the continuous use of earphone for more than 30 minutes in young population.
(2)Participants use the portable music player persisted for more than one hour once and more than four times in one week always get the severe disabilities of tinnitus and very loudly subjective tinnitus.
(3)Participants will get very loudly subjective tinnitus after using the music instrument for more than one hour.
(4)There is a positive correlation between the scale of tinnitus disabilities and the loudness of subjective tinnitus.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/103NPTU0284017
Date January 2016
CreatorsWu, Te-Fang, 吳德芳
ContributorsHuang, Yu-Zhi, 黃玉枝
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format112

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