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Masking level difference among brazilian military personnel: a comparison between pilots and non-pilots
Graziela Maria Martins-Moreira1,2, Alessandra Spada Durante1
1School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Santa Casa de Sao Paulo School of Medical Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil.
Objectives:
The aims of this study were to investigate auditory habits and binaural interaction among pilot and non-pilot military personnel from the Brazilian Air Force.
Design:
A cross-sectional study using (1) an auditory habits questionnaire to outline the groups auditory profile and (2) the masking level difference test (MLD, Auditec, Saint Louis®) to evaluate and compare the groups.
Study Sample:
Forty military male personnel aged between 30-40 years old, all with normal hearing, comprising 20 pilots in the study group (SG), and 20 non-pilots, not exposed to noise, in the control group (CG).
Results:
There was no significant difference between groups regarding auditory habits. In the MLD test, a significantly better performance under the homophasic condition (S0N0) was found in the SG. Under the antiphasic condition (SπN0) there were no differences between groups. This combination resulted in a significantly lower MLD in the SG compared to the CG.
Conclusions:
Repeated exposure to conditions where active pilots have to learn to recognise speech in noisy backgrounds may lead to a better performance in the MLD's homophasic condition (S0N0).
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