Journal article
Supra-aural transducer-related artifact contributes to overestimation of noise-induced hearing loss (L)
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.143(4), pp.2055-2058
04/01/2018
DOI: 10.1121/1.5030924
PMCID: PMC10836961
PMID: 29716271
Abstract
This study compared the effects of supra-aural and insert receivers on the prevalence of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in young adults. NIHL prevalence was found to be substantially higher when hearing thresholds were obtained with supra-aural compared to insert receivers on the same subjects. Real-ear sound pressure levels at 4000, 6000, and 8000 Hz were the major predictors of notched-audiograms obtained with supra-aural headphones. Distortion-product otoacoustic emissions were not significantly different between ears with and without notched-audiograms obtained with supra-aural headphones. The results demonstrated that supra-aural transducer-related artifacts can mimic a notch-like pattern leading to overestimation of NIHL prevalence. (C) 2018 Acoustical Society of America.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Supra-aural transducer-related artifact contributes to overestimation of noise-induced hearing loss (L)
- Creators
- Ishan S Bhatt - Northern Arizona University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.143(4), pp.2055-2058
- DOI
- 10.1121/1.5030924
- PMID
- 29716271
- PMCID
- PMC10836961
- NLM abbreviation
- J Acoust Soc Am
- ISSN
- 0001-4966
- eISSN
- 1520-8524
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- Number of pages
- 4
- Grant note
- Faculty Grants Program at Northern Arizona University
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9984258851202771
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