Hubungan Karakteristik dengan Peningkatan Ambang Pendengaran Penerbang di Balai Kesehatan Penerbangan Jakarta

Abstract

ABSTRACTNoiseintensitylevelsintheflightdeckscanbevarygreatlyandareaffectedbyfactorssuchastypesofaircraft,phaseof flight,altitudeandweatherconditions.Althoughcivilianpilotsareflyingaircraftinarelativelyquietfilghtdecks,there is stillenoughbackground noisetocausehearingloss for a certainperiod.Noise-inducedhearingloss cannotbecured but prevented only by control efforts. This cross-sectional study was aimed to analyze association between the individual characteristicsincludeflyinghours,age,noise-relatedhabits,usingearphoneandheadsetwithpilotsthresholdshiftin BalaiKesehatanPenerbanganJakartawithquantitativemethods.Thisstudysamplerepresentsatotalofsub-populations withthemajorityofrespondentshadmorethan1500flyinghours,under40yearsold,didnotdothenoise-related habits, usingtheearphoneandputtheheadsetonaslongastheyreinflight.Therewereassociationbetweenflyinghoursand age with pilot threshold shift. These are the significantvalue p= 0,008 (the right ear) and p=0,033 (the left ear) byflying hours and p=0,000 (the right ear) and p = 0,003 (the left ear) by age. Pilots are suggested to obey the rules of maximum flyinghoursandusethehearingprotectiondevices.BalaiKesehatanPenerbanganJakartaisrecommendedtoincrease the operator competency by training and audiometric certified. Keywords: the individual characteristics, pilots, flightdecksnoise, NIH