Data analysis of hearing of 719 recruited students from teenager flying school and discussion of relative standards / 军事医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the data on hearing of recruited students from a teenager aviation school according to both the standards of PLA and those of the US Armed Forces , to learn about their differences in hearing standards in medi-cal selection, and to raise suggestions on establishing hearing standards for medical selection of flying cadets from teenager aviation schools .Methods The data collected on the first hearing test about hearing of students from Hebei Teenager Aviation School were collected .The validity of the data was determined according to the medical selection standards both of PLA and of the US Armed Forces respectively .The cases of qualified or unqualified recruits at high frequency and middle -low frequency were counted respectively and analyzed statistically .Results The unqualified recruits determined by PLA′s standards tended to be unqualified too when determined by the US Armed Forces standards .During the screening of high frequency hearing and the general hearing condition , the proportion of unqualified cases determined by the US selection standards was higher than that determined by PLA′s selection standard .In the screening of middle-low frequency hearing , no statistically significant difference was found in the proportion of unqualified cases when the two different selection standards were used.Conclusion The hearing standard for medical selection of flying cadets at high frequency in the US Armed Forces is stricter than that in the PLA .Meanwhile, the hearing standard at middle-low frequency in the US Armed Forces is different from that in the PLA , though there are no statistically significant differences in the proportion of unqualified cases.The hearing standards of the US Armed Forces are recommended in recruiting flying cadets for teenager flying schools .