Abstract Noise is one the most common health hazards in the workplace. Noise-induced annoyance, as a measurable mental response, is one of the most significant adverse effects of noise. The level of annoyance from environmental noise is affected by several non-acoustic factors such as personality traits, hearing sensitivity, or attitude. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of hearing conservation education program on noise annoyance among workers of the textile industry. This is a pretest–posttest quasi-experimental study conducted upon the case group and the control group. 162 textile-industry workers exposed to excessive noise (77 individuals in the case group and 85 in the control group) were randomly selected and studied. The sound pressure level was first measured in the above-mentioned industry. Then, the degree of individual's noise annoyance was assessed using the ISO 15666 questionnaire and their knowledge, attitude, and practice using the KAP questionnaire 1 . The educational package was developed based on expert opinion and the initial assessment, and the questionnaires were completed after the educational intervention. The results revealed that an educational intervention would increase noise annoyance among the workers in the case group. It also affects the knowledge, attitude, and practice scores and improves them. Based on the results, older individuals experienced more noise annoyance, and practice improved with individual's age. The results of the study suggested that an educational intervention would lead to an increase in noise annoyance among workers by affecting their attitudes. It also improves knowledge, attitude, and practice scores. This survey is one of the few studies that focused exclusively on the impact of an educational intervention on noise annoyance. Therefore, the relationship between education and noise-induced annoyance in this article needs to be validated for other industrial settings with excessive noise, especially other textile factories.

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教育干预对纺织行业工人噪声烦恼的影响研究

摘要 噪音是工作场所最常见的健康危害之一。噪音引起的烦恼作为一种可测量的心理反应，是噪音最显着的不利影响之一。环境噪声的烦扰程度受多种非声学因素的影响，例如个性特征、听力敏感度或态度。本研究的目的是调查听力保护教育计划对纺织业工人噪音烦恼的影响。这是对病例组和对照组进行的前测-后测准实验研究。随机选取162名暴露于过度噪音的纺织业工人（病例组77人，对照组85人）进行研究。声压级是在上述行业中首次测量的。然后，使用 ISO 15666 问卷评估个人的噪音烦恼程度，使用 KAP 问卷 1 评估他们的知识、态度和实践。根据专家意见和初步评估制定教育包，并在教育干预后完成问卷。结果表明，教育干预会增加案例组工人的噪音烦恼。它还影响知识、态度和实践分数并提高它们。根据结果​​，年龄较大的人经历了更多的噪音烦恼，并且随着年龄的增长练习也会有所改善。研究结果表明，教育干预会影​​响工人的态度，从而导致他们对噪音的烦恼增加。它还可以提高知识，态度，和练习分数。这项调查是少数专门关注教育干预对噪音烦恼的影响的研究之一。因此，本文中的教育与噪音引起的烦恼之间的关系需要在其他噪音过大的工业环境中进行验证，尤其是其他纺织工厂。