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Changing beliefs about leisure noise: using health promotion models to investigate young people’s engagement with and attitudes toward hearing health.
(2015)
Objective: To investigate factors influencing young people’s motivation to reduce their leisure noise exposure, and protect their hearing health
Design: Questionnaires were conducted online to investigate young people’s ...
Hearing protection for clubbers is music to their ears
(Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2010)
Leisure noise exposure: Participation trends, symptoms of hearing damage, and perception of risk
(2014)
Leisure activities that emit high noise levels have the potential to expose participants to excessive noise exposure, which can result in hearing damage. This study investigated young people’s participation in high-noise ...
Hearing Protection Devices: Use at Work Predicts use at Play
(Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 2015)
Use of hearing protection devices (HPDs) at work is widespread and well researched, but less is
known about HPD usage in high-noise leisure activities. This study investigated 8,144
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Noise levels in fitness classes are still too high: Evidence from 1997-98 and 2009-11
(2013)
Fitness instructors routinely use high music volumes which may be harmful to hearing. This study assessed noise levels during 35 low-intensity and 65 high-intensity fitness classes in 1997-98 and 2009-11. Questionnaires ...
Clubbers’ Attitude Toward Earplugs: Better with Use
(Hearing Journal, 2014-04)
While earplugs have been identified as
an effective way for patrons of loud
music venues to mitigate the risks
from noise exposure, such hearing
protectors are rarely worn. Time and experience may
change that, though, ...
A qualitative study of earplug use as a health behaviour: The role of noise injury symptoms, self-efficacy, and an affinity for music
(2010)
The use of earplugs in loud music venues is confined to a small minority who wish to avoid hearing damage from excessive noise exposure. Using the framework of the health belief model (HBM), structured interviews were held ...
Bringing HEARsmart™ to music venues in Victoria
(2016)
Previous research suggests that patrons of nightclubs and live
music venues experience tinnitus and other symptoms more than
non-patrons, and that regular patrons would prefer noise levels
to be lower than the levels ...
Advancing tinnitus awareness through animation
(The Hearing Journal, 2017)
Delving into ‘hidden hearing loss’: Results from a large-scale behavioural investigation
(2016)
Some adults report problems understanding speech in background noise yet their audiograms are clinically normal. Animal studies suggest this may result from noise-induced damage to synaptic connections between auditory ...