Assisted Protection Headphone Proposal to Prevent Chronic Exposure to Percussion Instruments on Musicians
Joint Authors
Lloret, Jaime
Bosch, I.
Parra, Lorena
Torres, Marta
Campos, Agustín
Source
Journal of Healthcare Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-02-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The effects of chronic exposure to high sound pressure levels (SPLs) are widely studied in the industry environment.
However, the way that SPLs affect music students has not been thoroughly examined.
In this paper, we study the SPL exposure of batucada students and we propose an assisted protection headphone as a part of e-health system.
We measured the SPL reached during a regular percussion class.
Pure-tone audiometries were performed to a set of percussion students.
The gathered data were statistically analyzed.
The assisted protection headphones and their operation are detailed and tested during a regular class.
Our results show that 35% of the musicians present with a noise-induced hearing loss, considered as two frequencies with hearing loss of 25 dB or more or one frequency with a hearing loss of 30 dB or more.
Our data also shows that those students that do not use any protection have a greater hearing loss.
However, the students that use protection headphones are also suffering hearing loss.
There might be a problem in the way that musicians are using the protection headphones.
Our assisted protection headphones as a part of e-health measures can diminish the negative effects of percussion instruments for musicians.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Parra, Lorena& Torres, Marta& Lloret, Jaime& Campos, Agustín& Bosch, I.. 2018. Assisted Protection Headphone Proposal to Prevent Chronic Exposure to Percussion Instruments on Musicians. Journal of Healthcare Engineering،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1191421
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Parra, Lorena…[et al.]. Assisted Protection Headphone Proposal to Prevent Chronic Exposure to Percussion Instruments on Musicians. Journal of Healthcare Engineering No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1191421
American Medical Association (AMA)
Parra, Lorena& Torres, Marta& Lloret, Jaime& Campos, Agustín& Bosch, I.. Assisted Protection Headphone Proposal to Prevent Chronic Exposure to Percussion Instruments on Musicians. Journal of Healthcare Engineering. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1191421
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1191421