Assessing Noise-Exposure and Daily Habits Can Cause Hearing Loss among Ladies Club at Nightclub Febriyanto Kresna1,*, Sunarti Sri1, Ghozali1, Rahman Ferry Fadzlul1 1Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Science and Pharmacy, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur, Samarinda, Indonesia *Corresponding Author: Kresna Febriyanto Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Science and Pharmacy, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur, Jl. Ir. H. Juanda No. 15, Samarinda, Indonesia. 75124, Phone: +6285250525354 Email: kresna.kesmas@umkt.ac.id
Online published on 20 March, 2019. Abstract The majority problem in the workplace is about occupational noise-exposure. Health problem caused by noise becomes one of the important issues that must be observed. Nightclub owners often forgot about the health of their workers, especially hearing problem. The workers who works at nightclub are exposed to noise every time will putting their hearing at risk. The study aims to classify into levels of noise exposure, classify into levels of hearing loss, and assessing daily habits that can cause hearing loss. This research was cross-sectional study, where 62 ladies club were participated. As for the measurement in this study was used two methods such as: the tools (sound level meter for measuring intensity of noise exposure, audiometer for hearing problem), and questionnaires were assessed for daily habits. The mean of noise at nightclub was 107.22 dBA. A total of 51 workers (82.3%) had hearing loss (mostly at the level of mild 45 workers, and 6 workers in the level of moderate), while 11 respondents (17.7%) did not experience any hearing loss (normal). The statistical test found that hobby and smoke were strongest predictor may affect to hearing loss (p value < 0.05). Intensity noise all of nightclub exceeds the threshold value where the workers are works more than 4 hours a day. There are no management at nightclub doing regularly inspections the worker's ear. Doing the job rotation system it was a good solution to prevent from hearing loss. Top Keywords Nightclub, Noise-exposure, Hearing loss. Top |