Estimation of all-cause noise exposure for U.S. adults from national survey data

Author:

Humes Larry E.1ORCID,Moore Brian C. J.2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA

2. Cambridge Hearing Group, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom

Abstract

Millions of adults are at risk of hearing loss resulting from exposure to occupational and recreational noises. Data from the combined National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011–2012 and 2015–2016 datasets were used to establish the prevalence of occupational and recreational noise exposures through self-report questions. For recreational noise exposures, NHANES asked about the use of firearms, including the use of hearing protection devices (HPDs) while shooting, and off-work exposures to very loud noise. For work exposures, NHANES asked about exposures to loud and very loud noise. For four of these five questions, graded responses on a 5- or 7-point scale were available. Receiver-operating-characteristic analyses were used to optimize the criterion response for identification of hearing loss for each question with graded responses using the unweighted data. Correlations among the graded responses supported reduction to two measures: (1) rounds fired combined with use of HPDs while shooting and (2) work exposure to loud and very loud noise combined. Logistic-regression analyses of various measures of pure-tone hearing loss were performed to examine the effects of recreational and occupational noise exposures on hearing loss. The odds of hearing loss were significantly greater for those who reported recreational and combined noise exposures.

Funder

Medical Research Council

Publisher

Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Subject

Acoustics and Ultrasonics,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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