Hearing health risk in a population of aircraft carrier flight deck personnel.

This study evaluated the risk to hearing health associated with duty on the flight deck of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier. Descriptive data includes time-weighted average noise exposure and an evaluation of temporary threshold shift for a group of nonaviator flight deck personnel (FD), and a comparison of accrued permanent threshold shift among three shipboard occupational groups that had been matched for years of military service. The study participants included 76 FD personnel in a high-exposure group, 77 engineers in a moderate-exposure group, and 52 administrative personnel who were considered to have low occupational noise exposure.

Navy Hearing Conservation Program: 1995-1999 retrospective analysis of threshold shifts for age, sex, and officer/enlisted status.

This study provides a cross-sectional, population-based analysis of significant threshold shifts (STS) from over 83,000 audiograms on active duty members in the Navy Hearing Conservation Program Database for 1995-1999. Crude STS rates were lower for women than men (odds ration [OR], 0.82; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Hearing Conservation Program, 1995-1999: mean hearing thresholds for enlisted personnel by gender and age groups.

This study presents mean hearing thresholds from a cross-sectional study of 68,632 monitoring audiograms submitted to the Navy Environmental Health Center for 1995 to 1999. Records included U.S.

Navy Hearing Conservation Program: threshold shifts in enlisted personnel, 1995-1999.

This study presents audiometric information from 54,057 Navy enlisted personnel in the Navy and Marine Corps Hearing Conservation Program database from 1995 to 1999. The purpose was to compare current threshold shift patterns for Navy enlisted population with historical literature and review programmatic effectiveness issues. The data suggest that 82% of the population did not display significant threshold shift (STS) on the "annual" and "termination" audiograms, which increased to 94% after the "follow-up 2" examination.