Browsing Journal Publications by Author "Beach, Elizabeth"
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Advancing tinnitus awareness through animation
Gilliver, Megan; Sewell, Jane; McGinnity, Siobhan; Beach, Elizabeth (The Hearing Journal, 2017) -
Changing beliefs about leisure noise: using health promotion models to investigate young people’s engagement with and attitudes toward hearing health.
Gilliver, Megan; Beach, Elizabeth; Williams, Warwick (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 ... -
Clubbers’ Attitude Toward Earplugs: Better with Use
Nielsen, Lillian Bjorn; Beach, Elizabeth; Gilliver, Megan (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, ... -
Development of Telscreen: a telephone-based speech-in-noise hearing screening test with a novel masking noise and scoring procedure
Dillon, Harvey; Beach, Elizabeth; Seymour, John; Carter, Lyndal; Golding, Maryanne (International Journal of Audiology, 2016)Objective: In 2006 the National Acoustic Laboratories was commissioned to create a telephone-based hearing screening test. Design: NAL developed ‘Telscreen’, a speech-in-noise test modelled on the Dutch and UK telephone ... -
Effects of lifetime noise exposure on the middle-age human auditory brainstem response, tinnitus and speech-in-noise intelligibility
Valderrama, Joaquin; Beach, Elizabeth; Yeend, Ingrid; Sharma, Mridula; Van Dun, Bram; Dillon, Harvey (2018)Recent animal studies have shown that the synapses between inner hair cells and the dendrites of the spiral ganglion cells they innervate are the elements in the cochlea most vulnerable to excessive noise exposure. ... -
Estimating young Australian adults’ risk of hearing damage from selected leisure activities
Beach, Elizabeth (Ear & Hearing, 2012)Several previous studies have attempted to estimate the risk of noise-induced 2 hearing loss from loud leisure noise. Some of these studies may have over-estimated the 3 risk because they used noise estimates taken from ... -
Fitness Instructors and Noise Exposure: Spreading the Hearing Health Message
NIe, Valerie; Beach, Elizabeth (2015) -
Hearing loss, earplug use and attitudes to hearing protection amongst non-orchestral ensemble musicians
O'Brien, Ian; Beach, Elizabeth (2016) -
Hearing Protection Devices: Use at Work Predicts use at Play
Beach, Elizabeth; Gilliver, Megan; Williams, Warwick (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 Downloaded by [National Acoustic Labs], ... -
Hearing protection for clubbers is music to their ears
Beach, Elizabeth; Williams, Warwick; Gilliver, Megan (Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2010) -
Instrumental Music Teachers: Music Exposure and Hearing Loss
Beach, Elizabeth; Gilliver, Megan (2015) -
Leisure noise exposure: Participation trends, symptoms of hearing damage, and perception of risk
Beach, Elizabeth; Gilliver, Megan; Williams, Warwick (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 ... -
The NOISE (Non-Occupational Incidents Situations and Events) Database: A new research tool
Beach, Elizabeth; Gilliver, Megan; Williams, Warwick (2013)This paper describes the development of the NOISE (Non-Occupational Incidents Situations and Events) Database. The NOISE database currently contains 536 separate leisure activities and events, including noise level ... -
Noise exposure in the balance: Managing occupational and leisure risks to hearing health
Gillver, Megan; Williams, Warwick; Beach, Elizabeth (Journal of Health Safety and Environment, 2014)Health and safety risks that are present in both occupational and home/leisure environments can pose difficulties for health and safety professionals when determining risk mitigation responsibilities. Where work is defined ... -
Noise levels in fitness classes are still too high: Evidence from 1997-98 and 2009-11
Beach, Elizabeth; Nie, V (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 ... -
Noise with attitude: Influences on young people’s decisions to protect their hearing
Beach, Elizabeth; Williams, Warwick; Giliver, Megan (2013)Objective: To investigate young people’s experiences and attitudes towards hearing health and their participation in noise reduction behaviours, to better understand how education and prevention messages may be better ... -
Providing earplugs to young adults at risk encourages protective behaviour in music venues
Beach, Elizabeth; Nielsen, Lillian; ; Gilliver, Megan; (Sage Publications, 2014-09)For some young people, nightclubs and other music venues are a major source of noise exposure arising from a combination of very high noise levels; relatively long attendance duration; and frequent, sustained participation ... -
A qualitative study of earplug use as a health behaviour: The role of noise injury symptoms, self-efficacy, and an affinity for music
Beach, Elizabeth; Williams, Warwick; Gilliver, Megan (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 ... -
A snapshot of young adults’ noise exposure reveals evidence of ‘Binge Listening’
Beach, Elizabeth; Gilliver, Megan; Williams, Warwick (2013)There have been several previous studies into daily noise exposure levels in modern urban communities, which typically report mean noise exposure levels (LAeq) for adults between 73 and 79 dB. In this study, rather than ...