Factors affecting Thai workers' use of hearing protection.

This study used an ecological model to examine Thai workers' beliefs and attitudes toward using occupational hearing protection. Data collection involved focus group sessions with 28 noise-exposed workers at four factories in Chiang Mai Province and an interview with a safety officer at each or...

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Main Authors: Kunlayanee Tantranont, Wichit Srisuphan, Thanee Kaewthummanukul, Weeraporn Suthakorn, Pantip Jormsri, Mary K. Salazar
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spelling th-cmuir.6653943832-493962018-08-16T02:16:37Z Factors affecting Thai workers' use of hearing protection. Kunlayanee Tantranont Wichit Srisuphan Thanee Kaewthummanukul Weeraporn Suthakorn Pantip Jormsri Mary K. Salazar Medicine Nursing This study used an ecological model to examine Thai workers' beliefs and attitudes toward using occupational hearing protection. Data collection involved focus group sessions with 28 noise-exposed workers at four factories in Chiang Mai Province and an interview with a safety officer at each organization. Detailed content analysis resulted in the identification of three types of factors influencing the use of hearing protection: intrapersonal, including preventing impaired hearing, noise annoyance, personal discomfort, and interference with communication; interpersonal, including coworker modeling, supervisor support, and supervisor modeling; and organizational, including organizational rules and regulations, provision of hearing protection devices, dissemination of knowledge and information, noise monitoring, and hearing testing. Effective hearing protection programs depend on knowledge of all of these factors. Strategies to promote workers' use of hearing protection should include the complete range of factors having the potential to affect workers' hearing. 2018-08-16T02:15:55Z 2018-08-16T02:15:55Z 2009-01-01 Journal 08910162 2-s2.0-75349086626 10.3928/08910162-20091019-01 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=75349086626&origin=inward http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/49396
institution Chiang Mai University
building Chiang Mai University Library
country Thailand
collection CMU Intellectual Repository
topic Medicine
Nursing
spellingShingle Medicine
Nursing
Kunlayanee Tantranont
Wichit Srisuphan
Thanee Kaewthummanukul
Weeraporn Suthakorn
Pantip Jormsri
Mary K. Salazar
Factors affecting Thai workers' use of hearing protection.
description This study used an ecological model to examine Thai workers' beliefs and attitudes toward using occupational hearing protection. Data collection involved focus group sessions with 28 noise-exposed workers at four factories in Chiang Mai Province and an interview with a safety officer at each organization. Detailed content analysis resulted in the identification of three types of factors influencing the use of hearing protection: intrapersonal, including preventing impaired hearing, noise annoyance, personal discomfort, and interference with communication; interpersonal, including coworker modeling, supervisor support, and supervisor modeling; and organizational, including organizational rules and regulations, provision of hearing protection devices, dissemination of knowledge and information, noise monitoring, and hearing testing. Effective hearing protection programs depend on knowledge of all of these factors. Strategies to promote workers' use of hearing protection should include the complete range of factors having the potential to affect workers' hearing.
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author Kunlayanee Tantranont
Wichit Srisuphan
Thanee Kaewthummanukul
Weeraporn Suthakorn
Pantip Jormsri
Mary K. Salazar
author_facet Kunlayanee Tantranont
Wichit Srisuphan
Thanee Kaewthummanukul
Weeraporn Suthakorn
Pantip Jormsri
Mary K. Salazar
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title Factors affecting Thai workers' use of hearing protection.
title_short Factors affecting Thai workers' use of hearing protection.
title_full Factors affecting Thai workers' use of hearing protection.
title_fullStr Factors affecting Thai workers' use of hearing protection.
title_full_unstemmed Factors affecting Thai workers' use of hearing protection.
title_sort factors affecting thai workers' use of hearing protection.
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