Effect of recreational noise exposure on hearing impairment among teenage students

► Approximately 90.9% of the participants had the habit of using earphones during the past year. ► Pure tone audiometry showed 11.9% of subjects had one or both ears with hearing threshold over 25 dB. ► It was found that 13.5% of the subjects reported that they suffered from tinnitus. ► The noise exposure group had more self-reported hearing problems than the control group (p < 0.001).