William Atkins
Monday, 29 June 2009 18:42
Science -
Health
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A study conducted in the Netherlands shows that almost all teenagers (90%) use MP3 devices in the Netherlands. However, only about 7% of adolescents out of 48% that listen to music at high volumes use noise-limiting devices. The Dutch researchers call it risky behavior.
The article “
Adolescents and MP3 Players: Too Many Risks, Too Few Precautions” was published online on May 26, 2009 in the journal
Pediatrics.
Its authors are: Ineke Vogel, Hein Raat, and Hans Verschuure (Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam), Catharina P. B. van der Ploeg (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research in Leiden), and Johannes Brug, (Free University Medical Center in Amsterdam).
The Dutch researchers wanted to see if teenagers listening to music on MP3 players use risky practices; that is, if they played the music loud and did not use noise-limiting devices on the players.
They also wanted to see if the frequency of teen use of MP3 players (frequent versus infrequent) had any consequences of such listening practices.
And, they also wanted to find out if demographic characteristics (what type of school they attended) came into play.
The researchers looked at 1,687 adolescents, in 2007, which were of the ages 12 to 19 years. The teenagers were found in 68 school classes from fifteen Dutch secondary schools.
The students were asked to complete a questionnaire about their music-listening habits and behaviors.
Page two contains the results and conclusions of the study.
