The Level Of Community Behaviour Towards Hearing Loss In Indonesia

Hearing loss is the
most common disability in the world, with a prevalence of 5% of the world's
population of 466 million people.1 Knowledge about noise exposure
and hearing protection equipment is related to hearing loss.2 Health
is associated with a person's healthy lifestyle behaviour. This study aims to
determine the level of community behaviour towards hearing loss. This
type of research is descriptive-analytic with a crossectional study design. The population in this study is Indonesian
people who are non-health workers who are 17 years old. The sample inclusion
criteria are non-health workers such as doctors, nurses, midwives, etc., aged
17 years and over, and willing to participate in the study. The sampling
technique in this study was consecutive sampling. Based on the distribution of
patients, the female gender was more than male, namely 1484 people (61.6%). The
most education is Diploma-3 (D3) as many as 1095 people (45.4%), while the
lowest education is not in school as many as 8 people (0.3%). Most professions
are employees of 509 people (21.1%), while the lowest is TNI/Polri 20 people
(0.8%).