英文摘要 |
This retrospective questionnaire study is focused on the relationships between the earphone use, environmental noise and the tinnitus of the young population. We collected 31 patients, among 15 to 40 years old who ever visited the otorhinolaryngologic outpatient clinic in southern Taiwan for the problems of tinnitus and hearing impairment. All patients ever used the earphone and exposed to the environmental noise. The patients diagnosed to have the pathologies of the external ear, middle ear, inner ear or the central auditory system after the physical examination and a series of hearing tests were excluded from the study. All participants competed the inform consent, he patient assent and the parental permission for the teenagers. The questionnaires including the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (Huang, 2001), Noise Exposure Rating Scale (Zheng, 2010) and Subjective Tinnitus Analogue Scale (Li, 2005). All analyses were performed using SPSS software (version 17.0). Testing for the association was performed using t test, one-way analysis of variance. The main results were: (1) Young people use insert earphones, used more than 3 times a week and each time for more than 30 minutes and headphones volume greater than 4 or more, in the degree of severe tinnitus disorder. (2) Participants use the portable music player persisted for more than one hour once and more than four times in one week always get the severe disorder of tinnitus. (3) In the PUB more than 3 hours or more, the degree of its ringing sound disorder less than 2 hours of significant differences, in the degree of severe tinnitus disorder. |