title: Hearing symptoms personal stereos.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Practical and portable the personal stereos if had become almost indispensable accessories in the day the day. Studies disclose that the portable players of music can cause auditory damages in the long run for who hear music in high volume for a drawn out time.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  to verify the prevalence of auditory symptoms in users of amplified players and to know its habits of use
  
  
  METHODS
  Observational prospective study of transversal cut carried through in three institutions of education of the city of Salvador BA, being two of public net and one of the private net. 400 students had answered to the questionnaire, of both the sex, between 14 and 30 years that had related the habit to use personal stereos.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The symptoms most prevalent had been hyperacusis (43.5%), auricular fullness (30.5%) and humming (27.5), being that the humming is the symptom most present in the population youngest. How much to the daily habits: 62.3% frequent use, 57% in raised intensities, 34% in drawn out periods. An inverse relation between exposition time was verified and the band of age (p = 0,000) and direct with the prevalence of the humming.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although to admit to have knowledge on the damages that the exposition the sound of high intensity can cause the hearing, the daily habits of the young evidence the inadequate use of the portable stereos characterized by long periods of exposition, raised intensities, frequent use and preference for the insertion phones. The high prevalence of symptoms after the use suggests a bigger risk for the hearing of these young.
authors.affiliation: Graduation in Phonoaudiology. Phonoaudiologist.
authors.forename: Tiara Santos
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: da Luz
authors.affiliation: Master in Medicine and Health Human being for the Bahiana Foundation for the Development of Sciences, FBDC, Brazil. Professor of the Federal University of the Bahia.
authors.forename: Ana Lúcia Vieira de Freitas
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Borja
keywords: habits; hearing; symptoms