A comparison of self-reported hearing and pure tone threshold average in the Iowa Farm Family Health and Hazard Survey

Journal of Agromedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 31-39

  Choi, Seong Woo ^a   Peek Asa, Corinne ^a   Zwerling, Craig ^a   Sprince, Nancy L ^a   Rautiainen, Risto H ^a   Whitten, P S ^a   Flamme, Greg A ^b  

^a Department of Epidemiology   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Farmers; Pure tone threshold average; Self reported hearing; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF DISCLOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; IOWA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF DISCLOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33744528376     PISSN: 1059924X     EISSN: 15450813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J096v10n03_04     Document Type: Article

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