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

<table class="table-group" id="tab6"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left" rowspan="2"></td><td align="center" colspan="2">Occupational status</td><td align="center" rowspan="1">
									Total</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="center">Students</td><td align="center">Staff</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Normal hearing</td><td align="center">34 (73.9%)</td><td align="center">40 (70.2%)</td><td align="center">74 (71.8%)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Impaired hearing</td><td align="center">12 (26.1%)</td><td align="center">17 (29.8%)</td><td align="center">29 (28.2%)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td>Note: percentages were summed down columns, that is, by occupational status, and then overall by hearing status. Comparison between occupational status and hearing status showed no statistically significance under Chi-square test.<br/></td></tr></table>

Hearing status per pure tone audiometry by occupational status.

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Table 6: Acute, Repeated Exposure to Mobile Phone Noise and Audiometric Status of Young Adult Users in a University Community 