Adolescents and MP3 players: Too many risks, too few precautions

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Vogel, Ineke ^a   Verschuure, Hans ^a   Van Der Ploeg, Catharina P B ^b   Brug, Johannes ^a,c   Raat, Hein ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; MP3 player related behaviors; Prevention and control

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; MUSIC; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUND INTENSITY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; MALE; MP3-PLAYER; MUSIC; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66249143077     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-3179     Document Type: Article

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