title: [Will adolescents visit discotheque less often if sound levels of music are decreased?].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study investigated whether adolescents are likely to decrease their frequency of discotheque attendance if the sound levels are lowered moderately.
  
  
  METHODS
  A sample of 1,213 high school students aged between 13 and 20 years (mean: 15.8 years) were given a questionnaire and asked their views on the current sound levels at discotheques, and whether they would change their attendance if the levels were somewhat lower.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Some 53.7% of the respondents wished to keep the current sound levels, while only 2.5% preferred a raise, and 43.8% a decrease. In the case of a moderate decrease, 85% of respondents would not change their frequency of discotheque attendance, while 5% would reduce it, and 10% would increase it.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of this study contradict the fears of discotheque operators that adolescents would visit the discotheque less frequently if the sound levels are lowered moderately. To prove the effects of a sound level reduction, however, separate studies are needed.
authors.affiliation: Klinische Abteilung für Hör-, Stimm- und Sprachstörungen, HNO-Universitätsklinik der Medizinischen Universität Innsbruck. viktor.weichbold@uklibk.ac.at
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Weichbold
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zorowka
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D003615:Dancing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music; D009622:Noise; D011998:Recreation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires