Evidence for Environmental Noise Effects on Health for the United Kingdom Policy Context: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Environmental Noise on Mental Health, Wellbeing, Quality of Life, Cancer, Dementia, Birth, Reproductive Outcomes, and Cognition

Clark, Charlotte; Crumpler, Clare; Notley, And Hilary

doi:10.3390/ijerph17020393

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“…Stressors associated with depression include major life events (e.g., serious physical disease, natural disasters, intimate partner violence), chronic stressors (e.g., community violence, job insecurity, racial discrimination), and daily hassles. Other environmental factors reported to be associated with depression include negative aspects of the work environment 219 , increased social media and screen time 220,221 , unfavorable living environments 222 , increased air and noise pollution 223,224 , and higher ambient temperatures 225 .…”

Section: Recent Environmental Exposuresmentioning

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The clinical characterization of the adult patient with depression aimed at personalization of management

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Depression is widely acknowledged to be a heterogeneous entity, and the need to further characterize the individual patient who has received this diagnosis in order to personalize the management plan has been repeatedly emphasized. However, the research evidence that should guide this personalization is at present fragmentary, and the selection of treatment is usually based on the clinician's and/or the patient's preference and on safety issues, in a trial‐and‐error fashion, paying little attention to the particular features of the specific case. This may be one of the reasons why the majority of patients with a diagnosis of depression do not achieve remission with the first treatment they receive. The predominant pessimism about the actual feasibility of the personalization of treatment of depression in routine clinical practice has recently been tempered by some secondary analyses of databases from clinical trials, using approaches such as individual patient data meta‐analysis and machine learning, which indicate that some variables may indeed contribute to the identification of patients who are likely to respond differently to various antidepressant drugs or to antidepressant medication vs. specific psychotherapies. The need to develop decision support tools guiding the personalization of treatment of depression has been recently reaffirmed, and the point made that these tools should be developed through large observational studies using a comprehensive battery of self‐report and clinical measures. The present paper aims to describe systematically the salient domains that should be considered in this effort to personalize depression treatment. For each domain, the available research evidence is summarized, and the relevant assessment instruments are reviewed, with special attention to their suitability for use in routine clinical practice, also in view of their possible inclusion in the above‐mentioned comprehensive battery of measures. The main unmet needs that research should address in this area are emphasized. Where the available evidence allows providing the clinician with specific advice that can already be used today to make the management of depression more personalized, this advice is highlighted. Indeed, some sections of the paper, such as those on neurocognition and on physical comorbidities, indicate that the modern management of depression is becoming increasingly complex, with several components other than simply the choice of an antidepressant and/or a psychotherapy, some of which can already be reliably personalized.

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Section: Recent Environmental Exposuresmentioning

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“…Recent years have seen an increase in the strength of the evidence linking aircraft noise to health [ 43 , 44 ]. Long-term exposure to aircraft noise is linked to a range of health outcomes, including sleep disturbance [ 45 ], increased cardiovascular and metabolic ill-health [ 46 , 47 ], depression and anxiety [ 48 , 49 ] and poorer academic performance in children [ 50 , 51 ]. The recent WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region propose that exposure to aircraft noise above 45 dB L den is associated with adverse health effects and exposure above 40 dB L night is associated with adverse effects on sleep [ 52 ].…”

Section: What Can We Learn From Civil Aviation (And Other Environmmentioning

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A Psychoacoustic Approach to Building Knowledge about Human Response to Noise of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Torija

Clark

2021

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We are on the cusp of a revolution in the aviation sector, driven by the significant progress in electric power and battery technologies, and autonomous systems. Several industry leaders and governmental agencies are currently investigating the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or “drones” as commonly known, for an ever-growing number of applications—from blue light services to parcel delivery and urban mobility. Undoubtedly, the operation of UAVs will lead to noise exposure, which has the potential to become a significant public health issue. This paper first describes the main acoustic and operational characteristics of UAVs, as an unconventional noise source compared to conventional civil aircraft. Gaps in the literature and the regulations on the noise metrics and acceptable noise levels are identified and discussed. The state-of-the-art evidence on human response to aircraft and other environmental noise sources is reviewed and its application for UAVs discussed. A methodological framework is proposed for building psychoacoustic knowledge, to inform systems and operations development to limit the noise impact on communities.

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“…Employing an umbrella review to comprehensively synthesise existing systematic reviews and/or meta-analysis and then purposely pooling the evidence in LMICs with novel approaches, including improved robust meta-analytical QE model [74,75,81], grading the overall evidence with modified GRADE [59] as in previous environmental meta-epidemiology [44][45][46]63,94] and rating the strength of the cause-and-effect per Navigation Guide criteria [60][61][62] will contribute significantly to improved knowledge and inform future studies. We expect that this protocol will provide a succinct outline for searching, extracting and synthesising the relevant information.…”

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“…Following the WHO contextualised version of GRADE for environmental and occupation health reviews [46,59] as applied in related reviews [44,45,63,94], we will determine the initial level of quality of evidence across studies based on the study designs and subsequently downgrade by considering GRADE criteria [56,95]: (i) the risk of bias across studies; (ii) inconsistency of results; (iii) indirectness of evidence; (iv) imprecision of the effect estimate; and (v) publication bias or evidence from only one high quality study. We will upgrade for: (i) large magnitude of effect estimate (RR > 1.5) [59]; (ii) a study reporting an association in the presence of accounting for all plausible residual confounders; and (iii) evidence of exposure dose-response gradient.…”

Section: Confidence In Cumulative Evidence Across Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fortunately, the Navigation Guide systematic review methodology refined GRADE for environmental health risk assessment of human observational studies [60] as reported recently [61,62]. A recent WHO review on effects of environmental noise on cardiovascular and metabolic diseases also modified GRADE [59] and such modifications have been applied elsewhere [44][45][46]63]. Thus, there is an opportunity to rate the confidence in cumulative evidence on the effects of air pollution and/or temperature by adapting the modified GRADE system [59,60] as well as translating the overall confidence into plausible toxicological effects per Navigation Guide criteria [61,62].…”

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Ambient Air Pollution, Extreme Temperatures and Birth Outcomes: A Protocol for an Umbrella Review, Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Nyadanu

Tessema

Mullins

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Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution and extreme temperatures are among the major risk factors of adverse birth outcomes and with potential long-term effects during the life course. Although low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are most vulnerable, there is limited synthesis of evidence in such settings. This document describes a protocol for both an umbrella review (Systematic Review 1) and a focused systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from LMICs (Systematic Review 2). We will search from start date of each database to present, six major academic databases (PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, MEDLINE/Ovid, EMBASE/Ovid and Web of Science Core Collection), systematic reviews repositories and references of eligible studies. Additional searches in grey literature will also be conducted. Eligibility criteria include studies of pregnant women exposed to ambient air pollutants and/or extreme temperatures during pregnancy with and without adverse birth outcomes. The umbrella review (Systematic Review 1) will include only previous systematic reviews while Systematic Review 2 will include quantitative observational studies in LMICs. Searches will be restricted to English language using comprehensive search terms to consecutively screen the titles, abstracts and full-texts to select eligible studies. Two independent authors will conduct the study screening and selection, risk of bias assessment and data extraction using JBI SUMARI web-based software. Narrative and semi-quantitative syntheses will be employed for the Systematic Review 1. For Systematic Review 2, we will perform meta-analysis with two alternative meta-analytical methods (quality effect and inverse variance heterogeneity) as well as the classic random effect model. If meta-analysis is infeasible, narrative synthesis will be presented. Confidence in cumulative evidence and the strength of the evidence will be assessed. This protocol is registered with PROSPERO (CRD42020200387).

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Evidence for Environmental Noise Effects on Health for the United Kingdom Policy Context: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Environmental Noise on Mental Health, Wellbeing, Quality of Life, Cancer, Dementia, Birth, Reproductive Outcomes, and Cognition

Cited by 97 publications

References 87 publications

The clinical characterization of the adult patient with depression aimed at personalization of management

The clinical characterization of the adult patient with depression aimed at personalization of management

A Psychoacoustic Approach to Building Knowledge about Human Response to Noise of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Ambient Air Pollution, Extreme Temperatures and Birth Outcomes: A Protocol for an Umbrella Review, Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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