Traffic noise, noise annoyance and psychotropic medication use

Traffic noise, insomnia and sleep medication use

Methods: The study population was from the Health and Environment in Oslo study (HELMILO) (2009-10) (N=13,019). We defined insomnia symptoms as sleep problems occurring ≥ 3-5 times per week. We obtained data on register-based sleep medication use from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD). Modeled noise levels (Lnight) were assigned to each participant’s home address. Logistic regression ...

Traffic Noise Annoyance on Roads (tnar)

Noise is known as one of the most frequently reported negative environmental effects of traffic. At present, according to the current standards and calculation specifications, the impact of road traffic noise is represented by the A-weighted energy-equivalent sound level (LA,eq). This quantity does not account for the subjective annoyance of sound events as it is perceived by the affected perso...

Road traffic noise and registry based use of sleep medication

BACKGROUND Road traffic noise has been associated with adverse health effects including sleep disturbances. Use of sleep medication as an indicator of sleeping problems has rarely been explored in studies of the effects of traffic noise. Furthermore, using registry data on sleep medications provides an opportunity to study the effects of noise on sleep where attribution of sleep problems to noi...

Annoyance reactions to traffic noise in Italy and Sweden.

Effects of noise annoyance on mental distress

Introduction: Noise is one of the most harmful physical factors in the workplace that can cause annoyance. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of annoyance caused by occupational noise on employee’s mental distress. Materials and Methods: This analytical-descriptive study was performed on 325 employees of the parts manufacturing industry in seven groups and the noise ...