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%).