The influencing factors of hearing protection device usage among noise-exposed workers in Guangdong Province: a structural equation modeling-based survey

Table 1 General participants’ information (n = 524)

Variables	Categories	Number of participants	Percentage%
Age	< 30	90	17.2
	30 ∼ 39	238	45.4
	40 ∼ 49	127	24.2
	> 50	69	13.2
Year of work	< 10	250	47.7
	10 ∼ 19	208	39.7
	> 19	66	12.6
Education	High school degree and below	142	27.1
Education	Above high school degree	382	72.9
Work operation	Fixed site operation	243	46.4
Work operation	Non-fixed site operations	281	53.6
Work shifts	Fixed-day shift	264	50.4
Work shifts	Rotating shift	260	49.6
Whether participants had joined in the hearing protection training	Yes	243	46.4
	No	281	53.6
Wearing of HPD by colleagues in over-exposure to hazardous noise workplaces	Not wearing HPD	18	3.4
	Wear intermittently	144	27.5
	Wear continuously	362	69.1
HPD wearing behavior	< 90%	160	30.53
HPD wearing behavior	≥ 90%	364	69.47

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