scholarly journals Effects of Noise Sensitivity, Noise Exposure, and Affluent Status on Aircraft Noise Annoyance

2015 ◽  
Vol 06 (09) ◽  
pp. 976-985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veng Kheang Phun ◽  
Terumitsu Hirata ◽  
Tetsuo Yai
Keyword(s):  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Aircraft Noise ◽  
Noise Sensitivity ◽  
Noise Annoyance

scholarly journals Aircraft Noise and Psychological Ill-Health: The Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in France

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clémence Baudin ◽  
Marie Lefèvre ◽  
Patricia Champelovier ◽  
Jacques Lambert ◽  
Bernard Laumon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Aircraft Noise ◽  
Noise Sensitivity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Noise Annoyance ◽  
Direct Association

Background: The effects of aircraft noise on psychological ill-health have not been largely investigated and remain to be discussed. No study has been performed in France on the health effects of aircraft noise. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between aircraft noise in dB and in terms of annoyance and psychological ill-health in populations living near airports in France. Methods: A total of 1244 individuals older than 18 and living near three French airports (Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Lyon–Saint-Exupéry and Toulouse–Blagnac) were randomly selected to participate in the study. Information about their personal medical history and socioeconomic and lifestyle factors was collected by means of a face-to-face questionnaire performed at their place of residence by an interviewer. Psychological ill-health was evaluated with the 12-item version of the General Heath Questionnaire (GHQ-12). For each participant, outdoor aircraft noise exposure in dB was estimated by linking their home address to noise maps. Objective noise exposure in dB was considered to be the primary exposure of interest. Four noise indicators referring to three different periods of the day were derived and used for the statistical analyses: Lden, LAeq,24hr, LAeq,6hr–22hr, and Lnight. Noise annoyance and noise sensitivity were the secondary risk factors of interest. Logistic regression models were used with adjustment for potential confounders. Results: The participation rate in the study was 30%. Approximately 22% of the participants were considered to have psychological ill-health according to the GHQ-12. No direct association was found between exposure to aircraft noise in dB and psychological ill-health. However, annoyance due to aircraft noise and noise sensitivity were both significantly associated with psychological ill-health. Moreover, a gradient was evidenced between annoyance and psychological ill-health, with increasing ORs from 1.79 (95% CI 1.06–3.03) for people who were not all annoyed to 4.00 (95% CI 1.67–9.55) for extremely annoyed people.Conclusions: These findings confirm the results of previous studies, suggesting there is no direct association between aircraft noise exposure in dB and psychological ill-health, but there is a significant relationship between noise sensitivity or annoyance due to aircraft noise and psychological ill-health. This supports the hypothesis that psychological aspects, such as noise annoyance and noise sensitivity, play important roles in the association between environmental noise and adverse effects on health. However, further studies are necessary in order to better understand the links between these variables.

scholarly journals Self-rated health status in relation to aircraft noise exposure, noise annoyance or noise sensitivity: the results of a cross-sectional study in France

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clémence BAUDIN ◽  
Marie LEFÈVRE ◽  
Patricia CHAMPELOVIER ◽  
Jacques LAMBERT ◽  
Bernard LAUMON ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Aircraft Noise ◽  
Noise Sensitivity ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Noise Annoyance ◽  
Fair Poor

Abstract Background Noise is a major public health issue because of its negative impacts on health, including annoyance, sleep disturbance, cardiovascular diseases and altered cognitive performance among children. Self-rated health status (SRHS) can be considered as a reliable indicator of quality of life, morbidity and mortality but few studies have considered SRHS in relation to aircraft noise exposure. The present study aims to investigate the association between this exposure and SRHS of people living near airports in France, and to consider the mediating or moderating role of aircraft noise annoyance and noise sensitivity in this association. Methods This cross-sectional study included 1242 participants older than 18 and living near three major French airports. Information on their SRHS, aircraft noise annoyance, noise sensitivity and demographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle factors was collected during a face-to-face interview performed at home. Outdoor aircraft noise levels were estimated for each participant’s home address using noise maps. Logistic regressions with adjustment for potential confounders were used. The moderating and mediating effects of aircraft noise annoyance and noise sensitivity were investigated following Baron and Kenny’s recommendations. Results A significant association was shown between aircraft noise levels and a fair/poor SRHS, only in men (OR=1.55, 95%CI 1.01–2.39, for a 10 dB(A)-increase in Lden). This relationship was higher in men highly sensitive to noise (OR=3.26, 95%CI 1.19–8.88, for a 10 dB(A)-increase in Lden). Noise sensitivity was associated with a fair/poor SRHS significantly in women (OR=1.74, 95%CI 1.12–2.68) and at the borderline of significance in men (OR=1.68, 95% CI 0.94–3.00), whereas aircraft noise annoyance was associated with a fair/poor SRHS only in men (OR=1.81, 95%CI 1.00–3.27). Conclusion The present study confirms findings in the small number of available studies to date suggesting a positive association between aircraft noise levels and a fair/poor SRHS. These results also support the hypothesis that noise sensitivity would moderate this association. However, a mediating effect of annoyance cannot be excluded.

scholarly journals Aircraft Noise Distribution as a Fairness Dilemma—A Review of Aircraft Noise through the Lens of Social Justice Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7399
Author(s):  
Dominik Hauptvogel ◽  
Susanne Bartels ◽  
Dirk Schreckenberg ◽  
Tobias Rothmund
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Aircraft Noise ◽  
Noise Distribution ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Fairness Perceptions ◽  
Noise Annoyance ◽  
Social Justice Research ◽  
The Relationship

Aircraft noise exposure is a health risk and there is evidence that noise annoyance partly mediates the association between noise exposure and stress-related health risks. Thus, approaches to reduce annoyance may be beneficial for health. Annoyance is influenced by manifold non-acoustic factors and perceiving a fair and trustful relationship between the airport and its residents may be one of them. The distribution of aircraft noise exposure can be regarded as a fairness dilemma: while residents living near an airport may seem to have some advantages, the majority of residents living under certain flight routes or in their immediate proximity suffer from the disadvantages of the airport, especially the noise. Moreover, a dilemma exists between the airport’s beneficial economic impact for a region and the physical and psychological integrity of residents. Aircraft noise exposure through the lens of social justice research can help to improve our understanding of noise annoyance. Research indicates that the fairness perceptions of the parties involved can be enhanced by (a) improving individual cost–benefit ratios, (b) providing a fair procedure for deciding upon the noise distribution, and (c) implementing fair social interaction with residents. Based on the review of evidence from social justice research, we derive recommendations on how fairness aspects can be integrated into aircraft noise management with the purpose of improving the relationship between the airport and its residents, to reduce annoyance, and to enhance the acceptance of local aviation and the airport as a neighbor.

Aircraft Noise Exposure, Noise Sensitivity, and Everyday Errors

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Smith ◽  
Stephen Stansfeld
Keyword(s):  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Aircraft Noise ◽  
Noise Sensitivity

scholarly journals Investigation of occupational noise annoyance in a wind turbine power plant

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 798-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad R Monazzam ◽  
Seyed A Zakerian ◽  
Zeinab Kazemi ◽  
Mohammad H Ebrahimi ◽  
Maryam Ghaljahi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Noise Sensitivity ◽  
Wind Power Plant ◽  
Occupational Noise ◽  
Wind Turbine Noise ◽  
Noise Annoyance ◽  
Exposure Age

Noise, emitted by wind turbines, is one of the main health risk factors which has been recently considered in many researches. Noise annoyance is among the most important human responses to noise. The aim of this work was to modeling of annoyance due to noise at workplace coming from wind turbines in workers. All workers of a wind power plant consisted the study sample. The equivalent noise level was measured using a task-based method. Moreover, data related to noise annoyance and noise sensitivity were acquired by standardized methods. Based on the results, noise exposure, noise sensitivity, visibility, age, and experience affected noise annoyance. According to path analysis, the most indirect and direct effect on noise annoyance were attributed to noise exposure. Age, sensitivity, and noise exposure were positively associated to annoyance. It can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between age, experience, sensitivity to noise, and exposure to the wind turbine noise with noise annoyance.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of the Basis for WHO's New Recommendation for Limiting Aircraft Noise Annoyance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Truls Gjestland
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Aircraft Noise ◽  
Systematic Assessment ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Noise Annoyance ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Arbitrary Selection ◽  
Selection Of

The new WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region have recommendations for limiting noise exposure associated with adverse health effects. The limits are said to be based on a systematic review of existing evidence. This paper gives a systematic assessment of the presented evidence with respect to aircraft noise annoyance and demonstrates that the new guidelines are based on an arbitrary selection of existing studies comprising an imperfect and faulty set of data not representative for the general airport population.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of the Basis for WHO’s New Recommendation for Limiting Aircraft Noise Annoyance

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Truls Gjestland
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Aircraft Noise ◽  
European Region ◽  
Systematic Assessment ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Noise Annoyance ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Selection Of

The new WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region have recommendations for limiting noise exposure associated with adverse health effects. The limits are said to be based on a systematic review of existing evidence. This paper gives a systematic assessment of the presented evidence with respect to annoyance from aircraft noise. The new guidelines have been based on the results from a selection of existing aircraft noise studies. This paper demonstrates that a similar selection of other existing post-2000 studies will yield very different results. In addition, the validity of the presented evidence has been questioned as some of the referenced studies have not been conducted according to standardized methods, and the selection of respondents is not representative of the general airport population.

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