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Health Education Intervention on Hearing Health Risk Behaviors in College Students

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  • Dahui Wang

    (Department of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Chenhui Li

    (Department of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Yi Wang

    (Department of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China)

  • Shichang Wang

    (Department of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China)

  • Shuang Wu

    (Department of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China)

  • Shiyan Zhang

    (Department of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China)

  • Liangwen Xu

    (Department of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China)

Abstract

Young people, like college students, are at risk of hearing loss from prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds. However, behavioral interventional studies on them are inadequate. This study explored the application of a health belief model to the health education intervention on college students for improving hearing health knowledge, health belief, and hearing behaviors. From November 2017 to September 2018, a cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted, enrolling 830 college students, with 419 in the intervention group and 411 in the control group. The intervention group received a 3-month hearing health education, while the control group received no intervention. The information of hearing health knowledge, health belief, and hearing behaviors were collected using hearing health questionnaires before the intervention, after the intervention, and 3 months after the intervention cessation. The intervention significantly improved hearing health knowledge, health belief, perceived severity, and self-efficacy in female students, and effectively reduced the frequency of using headphones per day, duration of using headphones each time, and proportion of using headphones at high volume in female students, and reduced the behaviors of sleeping with headphones listening in females and males. Therefore, this study confirms the effectiveness of health belief model-based intervention for changing hearing loss-related risk behaviors.

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  • Dahui Wang & Chenhui Li & Yi Wang & Shichang Wang & Shuang Wu & Shiyan Zhang & Liangwen Xu, 2021. "Health Education Intervention on Hearing Health Risk Behaviors in College Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-10, February.
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