청소년의 소음에 대한 인식 및 태도

The Perception and Attitude about Noise in Adolescent

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception and attitude about noise in adolescent and to give the basic data for adolescent's hearing conservation program development and prevention education against their hearing loss. The subjects of this study were 253 students in two vocational high schools in D city. This study was carried out from April. 24, 2000 to May. 18, 2000. The instrument was a questionnaire developed by Rhee, Kyung Yong and Yi, Kwan Hyung(1996) & Luckes, E. and Johnson, M(1998). Data was analysis by a SPSS/Win 10.0 program with frequency, percentage, Mean, S D, t-test, ANOVA. The results of this study were as follows. 1. The following 4 factors were obtained by factor analysis; concern about hearing(F1), perceived susceptibility(F2), Knowledge about noise(F3), apathy of hearing loss from noise 61.7% of variance was explained by 4 factors. 2. The average of total perception and attitude about noise was 49.24+1.72 The average of concern about hearing scored the highest 3.54+0.69, the average of perceived knowledge about noise scored the lowest 1.92+0.61. The average of apathy of hearing loss from noise scored 2.97+0.86. 3. Significant variables influencing perception and attitude about noise were marks(F=3.19, p=0.04) and concern of parent about children's health(F=2.83, p=0.02) in perceived susceptibility, grade(t=2.34, p=0.02) and concern of parent about children's health(3.77, p=0.02) in knowledge about noise and father's education(F=3.38, p=0.02) in apathy of hearing loss from noise. 4. Significant variables influencing the factors related the hearing were family history of hearing disturbance(t=2.96, p=0.03) and experience of hearing examination(t=-2.32, p=0.02) in perceived susceptibility and using of earphone( t=-1.98, p=0.05) in apathy of hearing loss from noise. This study has shown that the perception and attitude about noise were related to adolescent's hearing and important to adolescent's hearing conservation. Therefore this data should be considered when designing a hearing conservation program and prevention education.