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Research Article

Noise with attitude: Influences on young people's decisions to protect their hearing

Megan Gilliver *National Acoustic Laboratories, Australian Hearing, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia;The Hearing Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Elizabeth Francis Beach *National Acoustic Laboratories, Australian Hearing, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
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Warwick Williams *National Acoustic Laboratories, Australian Hearing, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia;The Hearing Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Pages S26-S32 | Received 26 Sep 2012, Accepted 02 Oct 2012, Published online: 04 Feb 2013

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