Acute, Repeated Exposure to Mobile Phone Noise and Audiometric Status of Young Adult Users in a University Community

Table 3

Mean noise levels (in A-weighted decibels, dBA) of respondent mobile phones.

	𝑁	Mean	Standard deviation	𝑃 value
Students	58	93.1	16.1	> 0.05
Staff	75	88.6	11.0

Note: some students and staff reported more than one phone owned and used.
𝑁: number phones sampled (there were 45 staff and 58 students).