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T1 Assessment and Modeling of the Influence of Age, Gender, and Family History of Hearing Problems on the Probability of Suffering Hearing Loss in the Working Population
A1 Barrero Ahedo, Jesús P.
A1 López Perea, Eva María
A1 Herrera, Sixto
A1 Mariscal Saldaña, Miguel Ángel
A1 García Herrero, Susana
K1 Hearing loss
K1 Bayesian network
K1 Gender
K1 Age
K1 Family history
K1 Salud pública
K1 Public health
K1 Trabajo-Organización
K1 Work design
AB Hearing loss affects hundreds of millions of people all over the world, leading to several types of disabilities, ranging from purely physical to psychological and/or social aspects. A proper analysis to ascertain the main risk factors is essential in order to diagnose early and treat adequately. An exploratory analysis based on a heterogeneous sample of 1418 workers is presented in order to identify the main trigger factors for hearing loss. On the one hand, we recorded several medical and environmental parameters, and on the other, we created a model based on Bayesian networks in order to be able to infer the probability of hearing loss considering different scenarios. This paper focuses on three parameters: gender, age, and a family history of hearing problems. The results obtained allow us to infer or predict the best or worst auditory level for an individual under several different scenarios. The least relevant factor is the existence of a family history of deafness, followed by the gender factor, which slopes considerably toward better hearing for females, and most prominent of all, the age factor, given the large differences identified between the various age groups when the gender and family history of deafness variables remain constant.
PB MDPI
SN 1661-7827
YR 2020
FD 2020-11
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8288
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8288
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 11-may-2024