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

Table 4

Ear reported used in making or receiving a call by occupational status.

	Ear used in making or receiving a call			Total
	Right	Left	No preference
Students	38 (51.4%)	7 (28.0%)	0 (0.0%)	45 (43.7%)
Staff	36 (48.6%)	18 (72.0%)	3 (100%)	58 (56.3%)

Note: as each ear was assessed separately during pure tone audiometry, percentages were summed down columns, that is, by ear, and then overall by occupational status. Comparison between occupational status and the ear used in making or receiving a call showed a borderline statistically significant difference at 𝑃=0.05 under Chi-square tests.