Prevalence and influencing factors of hearing status for workers with different subjective perception of hearing in Wuhan City from 2017 to 2019

Abstract

Objective To investigate the hearing status and influencing factors of hearing among people with different subjective perception of hearing in Wuhan City from 2017 to 2019. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted to select some automobile manufacturing workers who underwent physical examination in Wuhan Prevention and Treatment Center for Occupational Disease from Jan 2017 to Dec 2019 as the research subjects. Questionnaire survey and pure tone threshold test were conducted. After excluding individuals with missing information, a total of 15 594 individuals were finally included for analysis and research. Logistic regression analysis was used to explore the influencing factors of hearing status for workers with different subjective perception of hearing. Results Among the 15 594 male workers in automobile manufacturing industry, the proportion of subjective feeling of hearing for good, general and poor was 45.86% (7 152/15 594), 51.75% (8 070/15 594) and 2.39% (372/15 594), respectively. In terms of speech frequency, the proportion of hearing loss of the workers with good subjective hearing was 3.45%. In terms of high frequency, the proportion of hearing loss of workers with good subjective hearing was 18.47%. Age≥40 (OR=4.53, 95% CI=3.34-6.14, P Conclusion Some people with good subjective perception of hearing still have hearing loss, and risk factors of hearing loss among people with different subjective perception of hearing are different.