EVALUATION OF THE EXPRESSION OF HEARING DISORDERS IN PARTICIPANTS OF A LOCAL MILITARY CONFLICT WITH PRECEDING WORK EXPERIENCE IN CONDITIONS OF PRODUCTION NOISE
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Abstract. Hearing indicators for persons demobilized from military service and having previous experience in the conditions of industrial noise.
Objective. Assessment of the impact of harmful factors of military service in the conditions of local military conflict, including the performance of combat missions near the line of demarcation, the hearing indicators of citizens returning to work in the previous profession in the national economy.
Methods. The study included 180 citizens of the Donetsk Public Republic with the previous experience of military service in the conditions of a local military conflict and 110 citizens of the Donetsk Public Republic without military service experience, who were divided into the main group and three control groups.
We studied the severity of hearing at the time of the study by audiography, based on the available medical records compared with the indicators of acuity before entering the military service.
The mean values were determined, the reliability was assessed using Student's t-test, the dependence was determined using the Pearson correlation coefficient.
Results. There was a significant decrease in the acuity of hearing in the main group compared with the period before admission to military service, as well as with control group 2 and control group 3, the decrease in hearing acuity in control group 1 is unreliable.
Conclusions. In persons with prior work experience under conditions of production noise, harmful military service conditions can lead to the emergence and development of early forms of neuro-sensory hearing loss, which requires a set of preventive measures preventing the development and progression of this disease when returning these citizens to work in the main specialty of National economy.Keywords
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