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Effects of Personal Music Player with Headphone Use on Hearing Acuity among College-Aged Students

Stephenson, Sarah Louise
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336077170

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2012, Master of Arts, Miami University, Speech Pathology and Audiology.
This paper reports on an experiment designed to evaluate the effects of personal music player (PMP) usage and listening behavior on the hearing acuity of college-aged adults. Probe-microphone sound pressure levels (SPLs) were measured on 180 college-age participants, converted to free-field equivalents and compared to pure-tone thresholds. Subjects also completed three surveys to assess health history, listening habits and knowledge of risk. Results of the study reveal that seven subjects exceeded the NIOSH guidelines for maximum noise exposure. The students who reported weekly usage times greater than 7.5 hours per week had significantly worse pure-tone hearing across the audiometric frequencies (p= .03). Concerns are raised regarding the association between potential volume levels (>85 dB) of modern PMPs and self-reported duration (>7.5 hrs/week) of PMP use with decreased hearing acuity among college student listeners.
Dr. Kathleen Hutchinson, PhD (Advisor)
Dr. Helaine Alessio, PhD (Committee Member)
Dr. Laura Kelly, PhD (Committee Member)
32 p.
Audiology
noise induced hearing loss; personal music player; health knowledge; music; NIOSH; safe listening; earbud use; headphone use; hearing acuity

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  • Stephenson, S. L. (2012). Effects of Personal Music Player with Headphone Use on Hearing Acuity among College-Aged Students [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336077170

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stephenson, Sarah. Effects of Personal Music Player with Headphone Use on Hearing Acuity among College-Aged Students. 2012. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336077170.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stephenson, Sarah. "Effects of Personal Music Player with Headphone Use on Hearing Acuity among College-Aged Students." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336077170

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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