Daily Exposure Monitoring Intervention to Prevent Hearing Loss

每日暴露监测干预措施以预防听力损失

• 批准号: 8842377
• 负责人: PETER MACGARR RABINOWITZ
• 金额: $ 18.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8842377
• 关键词: Daily; Exposure; Monitoring; Intervention; Prevent

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) continues to be one of the most common occupational disorders, even in OSHA compliant workplaces. Prevention of occupational hearing loss is a top priority of the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA). This proposal is to continue the Daily Exposure Monitoring of Noise (DEMON) Study, a study of a unique intervention to prevent NIHL by use of an innovative technology (QuietDose) that records noise exposure levels inside of hearing protection on a continuous basis. In the first phase of the study, intervention subjects and controls have been recruited and regular downloading of noise exposures is occurring. The second phase of the DEMON study will continue to follow this unique cohort in order to determine the effectiveness of the intervention (in both a mandatory and voluntary use setting), better understand the dose response relationship between noise exposure and hearing loss (including the role of impulsive noise) and also compare the effective attenuation of hearing protection over time with "fit tests" done at a single point in time.

描述(由申请人提供)：噪声引起的听力损失(NIHL)仍然是最常见的职业病之一，即使在符合OSHA标准的工作场所也是如此。预防职业性听力损失是国家职业研究议程(NORA)的重中之重。这项建议将继续进行每日噪音暴露监测(DEMON)研究，这是一项利用创新技术(QuietDose)连续记录听力保护器内噪音暴露水平以预防NIHL的独特干预研究。在研究的第一阶段，已经招募了干预对象和对照组，并定期下载噪声暴露。DEMON研究的第二阶段将继续跟踪这一独特的队列，以确定干预的有效性(在强制和自愿使用环境下)，更好地了解噪声暴露和听力损失(包括脉冲性噪声的作用)之间的剂量反应关系，并将听力保护随时间的有效衰减与在单一时间点进行的“适合性测试”进行比较。