Department of Mechanical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure, ÉTS, Montréal, Canada.
Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail, IRSST, Montréal, Canada.
Int J Audiol. 2019 Dec;58(12):824-833. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2019.1646930. Epub 2019 Jul 31.
This article presents a comprehensive literature review of past works addressing Hearing Protection Devices (HPD) comfort and to put them into perspective regarding a proposed holistic multidimensional construct of HPD comfort. Literature review. Documents were hand searched and Internet searched using "PubMed", "Web of Science", "Google Scholar", "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Professional", "Scopus" or "Google" search engines. While comfort constructs and measurement methods are reviewed for both earplugs and earmuff types, results and analyses are provided for the earplug type only. This article proposed a multidimensional construct of HPD comfort based on four dimensions: physical, functional, acoustical and psychological. Seen through the prism of the proposed holistic construct of HPD comfort, the main comfort attributes of earplugs have been identified for each comfort dimension. The observed lack of consensus on the definition of HPD comfort in the scientific community makes it difficult to prioritise the importance of comfort attributes yet necessary for future design of comfortable earplugs.
本文对过去关于听力保护装置（HPD）舒适性的研究进行了全面的文献回顾，并就提出的 HPD 舒适性整体多维结构对其进行了分析。文献回顾。通过“PubMed”、“Web of Science”、“Google Scholar”、“ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Professional”、“Scopus”或“Google”搜索引擎，对耳塞和耳罩两种类型的舒适性结构和测量方法进行了手工搜索和网络搜索。虽然对耳塞和耳罩两种类型的 HPD 舒适性结构和测量方法进行了综述，但仅提供了耳塞类型的结果和分析。本文提出了一个基于四个维度的 HPD 舒适性多维结构：物理、功能、声学和心理。通过 HPD 舒适性整体结构的视角，确定了耳塞在每个舒适性维度的主要舒适性属性。观察到科学界对 HPD 舒适性的定义缺乏共识，这使得确定舒适性属性的重要性变得困难，而这些属性对于未来舒适耳塞的设计是必要的。
