Journal of Clinical Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2012; 23(1):70-73

pISSN: 1225-0244, eISSN: 2713-833X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.2012.23.1.70

원저

경찰병원에 이명, 난청을 주소로 내원한 현역 경찰관의 청각학적 고찰

정혜원¹, 주준범¹, 조주은¹, 김종양¹^,^*

Audiometric Study of Police Officers Who Visit National Police Hospital to Complain of Tinnitus or Hearing Disturbance

Hye Won Jung¹, Joon Bum Joo¹, Ju Eun Cho¹, Jong Yang Kim¹^,^*

¹경찰병원 이비인후과

¹Department of Otolaryngology, National Police Hospital, Seoul, Korea

^*교신저자: 김종양, 138-708 서울 송파구 송이로 123 경찰병원 이비인후과 전화 : (02) 3400-1277· 전송: (02) 400-0287 E-mail： wiseguy71@nph.go.kr

© Copyright 2012 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: Nov 17, 2011; Revised: Dec 01, 2011; Accepted: Dec 16, 2011

Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

Background and Objectives: There is a lack of data about police officers’s hearing thresholds in Korea. We evaluate audiometric study in police officers who visit national police hospital to complain of tinnitus or hearing disturbance. Materials and Methods: We undertook a retrospective study using review of medical records. We divided 3 groups to age (I: 31–40, II: 41–50, III: 51–59), determined the thresholds of hearing according to frequency and site in each group. Results: The hearing was significantly worse in left side than right side at 6 kHz in group III (p<0.05). All groups showed the hearing threshold was below 30 dB at 125 Hz, 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1k Hz, 2k Hz, and above 35 dB at 4, 6, 8 kHz at both side. The hearing threshold was increasing according to age. The hearing threshold was significantly worse at all the frequencies in group III than group I (p <0.05). Conclusion: Police officers who visit national police hospital to complain of tinnitus or hearing disturbance had both high frequencies hearing loss and tinnitus. Hearing loss was worse according to age-related acoustic trauma. Further research and prevention of hearing loss should be needed. (J Clinical Otolaryngol 2012;23:70–73)

Keywords: 난청; 경찰관; 이명

Keywords: Hearing loss; Police officers; Tinnitus