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

Table 7

Hearing status of respondents by reported ear of preferred use.

	Preferred ear used in making or receiving a call			Total
	Right	Left	No preference
Normal hearing	54 (73.0%)	16 (61.5%)	3 (100%)	73 (70.9%)
Impaired hearing	20 (27.0%)	10 (38.5%)	0 (0.0%)	30 (29.1%)

Note: percentages were summed down columns, that is, by preferred ear used, and then overall by hearing status. Comparison between the dominant ear and the nondominant ear showed no statistically significance under Chi-square test (i.e., 𝑃>0.05).