Papel do treinamento em saúde auditiva na percepção de perda auditiva e proteção auditiva auto-declaradas por funcionários de indústrias sucroalcooleira de Alagoas

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Brandão, Kristhine Keila Calheiros Paiva [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Audição; Hearing Protection; Ruído ocupacional; Saúde do trabalhador; Training Hearing Health; Perception of Hearing Loss; Perda auditiva
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/9901

the hearing loss and hearing protection for employees between two industries of the sugarcane branch, with and without participation in a program of conservation in hearing health. Methodology: 120 employees had participated of the study in the sugarcane industry A whom had received the specific training in hearing health and 87 employees from the sugarcane industry B, whom they had not received the same training. The questionnaire was used “Beliefs and attitudes on hearing protection and hearing loss”, elaborated for researchers of the NIOSH (1996), which was applied after the training in hearing health, that is one of the stages of the Program of Hearing Health - PCA, developed for the sugarcane industry A. For the sugarcane industry B, the questionnaire was applied in days marked with the sector of engineering in security of the work, not following, therefore, the sequence of the training in hearing health, however, this company not yet develops the PCA. The average age of the employees in the sugarcane industry A was of 31, 8 years and for sugarcane industry B was 30, 5 years. The average of years of study in the sugarcane industries A and B were of 10 years. Most of the employees both the industries had high risk of hearing loss for exposition to the loud noise above 85db, with interval of 0 the 10 years, as working in the same function for the majority of the employees in the two industries. However, an employee of the sugarcane industry A affirmed that He didn´t use any hearing protector. Results: Nevertheless, 10 thematic evaluated in the questionnaire, the best perception of susceptibilities was observed in the sugarcane industry A to acquire a hearing loss (p<0,001), perception of obstacles of an injunction when related to the comfort of the use of the hearing protector (p=0,022) and better perception of the auto-effectiveness related to the success front the actions recommended for protection of the hearing health (0,005), as well as for a total score(p=0,010) when compared sugarcane industry B that does not develop the PCA. Conclusion: Through this study it was found that the questionnaire "Beliefs and attitudes about hearing protection and hearing loss", allowed us to know the reality closer to employees about their hearing health knowledge that has demonstrated compliance with minimum standards regulating the Ministry of Labour. Comparing the results between plants with and without a hearing conservation program, it was concluded that the sugarcane mill, which implemented a PCA, since 2006, had a relation to thematic T1, T4 and T10 regarding: perceived susceptibility of acquiring a hearing loss, perceived barriers to preventive action, comfort, and self-efficacy.