The Effect of Medical Student Behavior in Personal Listening Devices Usage on The Average of High-Frequency Threshold in Online Learning During Pandemic

Abstract

During COVID-19, online learning became one of the impacts that could not be avoided. One form of adaptation among students is increasing the use of Personal Listening Devices (PLD) for online learning needs. An increase in the intensity and frequency of using PLD can increase the risk of noise-induced hearing loss, namely hearing loss due to noise where there is an increase in a person's hearing threshold due to disruption of hearing cells in the inner ear Corti organ. The purpose of this study was to prove whether there is an influence between the behavior of medical students in using PLD and the average high-frequency listening threshold during online learning. The research method used is an analytic observational design with a cross-sectional approach. The data was analized by Chi-square test. The results showed that: the PLD usage (p=0.160, p=0.498); the length of PLD usage (p=0.452, p=0.071); the duration of PLD usage per day before the pandemic (p=0.895, p=0.309); the duration of PLD usage per day during the pandemic (p=0.957, p=0.428); the duration of PLD usage per week before the pandemic (p=0.764, p=0.796); the duration of PLD usage per week during the pandemic (p=0.811, p=0.942); the PLD volume (p=0.731, p=0.731); the time of PLD usage (p=0.812, p=0.092); the increased intensity of PLD usage (p=0.291, p=0.887); the PLD type (p=0.879, p=0.476); and PLD's noise reduction facilities (p=0.879, p=0.353). This study concludes that there is no influence of the PLD usage behavior among the medical students on high-frequency thresholds during pandemic online learning.