Abstract

Background Noise-induced hearing loss NIHL impacts on about 20 of inability to hear around the world becoming an increasingly common occupational disease Objectives Identify and analyze the latent variables that impact on NIHL in the workplace finding approaches that relate the understanding of the phenomenon in the occupational context Methods Application of questionnaires to 278 workers potentially exposed to occupational noise in an industry in Brazil After we used multivariate analysis by Pearson correlation and multiple linear regressions applied on subconstructs identified