How noise and chemicals at work affect hearing and balance in fuel station workers
Looks at how workplace noise relates to hearing in people working in noisy settings.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Ondokuz Mayıs University
- Where
- Samsun, TürkiyeSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- OCCUPATIONAL NOISE AND CHEMICAL EXPOSURE EFFECTS ON AUDITORY AND VESTIBULAR FUNCTION
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- People taking part
- 50 people, planned
- Started
- 3 Sept 2026
- Expected to end
- 10 Mar 2027
- Type of study
- Observational, 2 groups
- Record updated
- 8 September 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for men who work at a fuel station, to study how work noise and chemicals affect hearing and balance. A comparison group of healthy people with no such exposure also takes part.
- Age
- 20 to 60 years
- Sex
- Men only
- Disease stage
- Fuel station work for at least two years. No hearing loss on the hearing test done before starting the job.
- Earlier treatment
- No past ear surgery.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Middle ear disease
- Past hearing loss
- Past loss of balance or inner ear balance disease
- Neurological disorders
- Psychiatric disorders
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Male participants aged 20-60 years who had been working at a fuel station for at least two years, had no hearing loss on their pre-employment audiogram, and had no history of balance loss or otologic surgery
Who cannot take part
- Individuals with middle ear pathology, a history of hearing loss, vestibular disease, or neurological or psychiatric disorders
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 20 and 60 years old?
Where in Türkiye
- Ondokuz Mayıs UniversitySamsun, TürkiyeContact: Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This study aims to investigate the effects of occupational noise exposure on hearing and auditory functions among individuals working in noisy environments. The study evaluates the relationship between occupational noise exposure and hearing-related outcomes.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Study Group
Fuel station workers exposed to occupational noise and chemical substances.
- Control Group
Healthy individuals with similar sociodemographic characteristics and no exposure to occupational noise or chemical substances.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- EFFECTS OF OCCUPATIONAL NOISE AND CHEMICAL EXPOSURE ON AUDITORY AND VESTIBULAR FUNCTION IN FUEL STATION EMPLOYEES
- Plain-language title
- How noise and chemicals at work affect hearing and balance in fuel station workersGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07806123, who can take part
- Record updated
- 8 September 2026