A survey on exposure-response relationships for road, rail, and aircraft noise annoyance: Differences between continuous and intermittent noise

Brink, Mark; Schäffer, Beat; Vienneau, Danielle; Foraster, María; Pieren, Reto; Eze, Ikenna C.; Cajochen, Christian; Probst‐Hensch, Nicole; Röösli, Martin; Wunderli, Jean Marc

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2019.01.043

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“…Intermittency ratio (IR). Ratio between the sound energy contributions of events, and the overall contributions during the measurement period [43][44][45][46] Expresses the energetic share of noise exposure created by individual noise events…”

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A Taxonomy Proposal for the Assessment of the Changes in Soundscape Resulting from the COVID-19 Lockdown

Asensio

Aumond

Can

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Many countries around the world have chosen lockdown and restrictions on people’s mobility as the main strategies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. These actions have significantly affected environmental noise and modified urban soundscapes, opening up an unprecedented opportunity for research in the field. In order to enable these investigations to be carried out in a more harmonized and consistent manner, this paper makes a proposal for a set of indicators that will enable to address the challenge from a number of different approaches. It proposes a minimum set of basic energetic indicators, and the taxonomy that will allow their communication and reporting. In addition, an extended set of descriptors is outlined which better enables the application of more novel approaches to the evaluation of the effect of this new soundscape on people’s subjective perception.

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A Taxonomy Proposal for the Assessment of the Changes in Soundscape Resulting from the COVID-19 Lockdown

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“…These reactions to noise could be due to the diverse characteristics of noise from each traffic source. Fluctuations in noise differ for each form of traffic noise, and the intermittency ratio (a metric of noise fluctuation) is positively associated with annoyance to railway and aircraft noise [9]. Traffic related sleep disturbances might also mediate the pathway between traffic noise exposure and mental health problems.…”

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Traffic Noise and Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Hegewald

Schubert

Freiberg

et al. 2020

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Recent evidence suggests that traffic noise may negatively impact mental health. However, existing systematic reviews provide an incomplete overview of the effects of all traffic noise sources on mental health. We conducted a systematic literature search and summarized the evidence for road, railway, or aircraft noise-related risks of depression, anxiety, cognitive decline, and dementia among adults. We included 31 studies (26 on depression and/or anxiety disorders, 5 on dementia). The meta-analysis of five aircraft noise studies found that depression risk increased significantly by 12% per 10 dB LDEN (Effect Size = 1.12, 95% CI 1.02–1.23). The meta-analyses of road (11 studies) and railway traffic noise (3 studies) indicated 2–3% (not statistically significant) increases in depression risk per 10 dB LDEN. Results for road traffic noise related anxiety were similar. We did not find enough studies to meta-analyze anxiety and railway or aircraft noise, and dementia/ cognitive impairment and any traffic noise. In conclusion, aircraft noise exposure increases the risk for depression. Otherwise, we did not detect statistically significant risk increases due to road and railway traffic noise or for anxiety. More research on the association of cognitive disorders and traffic noise is required. Public policies to reduce environmental traffic noise might not only increase wellness (by reducing noise-induced annoyance), but might contribute to the prevention of depression and anxiety disorders.

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“…Intermittent, continuous, impulsive, and low-frequency noises have varying characteristics, and their impact on annoyance, sleep, human performance, and health outcomes differ. [15][16][17] Intermittent noise is thought to be particularly distressing to patients, as the abrupt change in decibel level garners immediate attention and habituation may be less likely to occur. [18][19][20] Future studies of the effects of overhead paging on patients should consider the duration of sound occurrence and time interval between sound events, as differences may alter psychologic and physiologic human responses.…”

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Research : Replacing Overhead Paging with Smartphones to Reduce Hospital Noise

Driscoll¹,

Cleveland²,

Gurmu³

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Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology

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Hospital noise is associated with adverse effects on patients and staff. Communication through overhead paging is a major contributor to hospital noise. Replacing overhead paging with smartphones through a clinical mobility platform has the potential to reduce transitory noises in the hospital setting, though this result has not been described. The current study evaluated the impact of replacing overhead paging with a smartphone-based clinical mobility platform on transitory noise levels in a labor and delivery unit. Transitory noises were defined as sound levels greater than 10 dB above baseline, as recorded by a sound level meter. Prior to smartphone implementation, 77% of all sound levels at or above 60 dB were generated by overhead paging. Overhead pages occurred at an average rate of 3.17 per hour. Following smartphone implementation, overhead pages were eliminated and transitory noises decreased by two-thirds ( P < 0.001). The highest recorded sound level decreased from 76.54 to 57.34 dB following implementation. The percent of sounds that exceeded the thresholds recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency and International Noise Council decreased from 31.2% to 0.2% following implementation ( P < 0.001). Replacement of overhead paging with a clinical mobility platform that utilized smartphones was associated with a significant reduction in transitory noise. Clinical mobility implementation, as part of a noise reduction strategy, may be effective in other inpatient settings.

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A survey on exposure-response relationships for road, rail, and aircraft noise annoyance: Differences between continuous and intermittent noise

Cited by 140 publications

References 26 publications

A Taxonomy Proposal for the Assessment of the Changes in Soundscape Resulting from the COVID-19 Lockdown

A Taxonomy Proposal for the Assessment of the Changes in Soundscape Resulting from the COVID-19 Lockdown

Traffic Noise and Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Research : Replacing Overhead Paging with Smartphones to Reduce Hospital Noise

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