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The Relation between Scores on Noise Annoyance and Noise Disturbed Sleep in a Public Health Survey

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  • Frits Van den Berg

    (GGD Amsterdam Public Health Service, P.O. Box 2200, Amsterdam 1000CE, The Netherlands)

  • Claudia Verhagen

    (GGD Amsterdam Public Health Service, P.O. Box 2200, Amsterdam 1000CE, The Netherlands)

  • Daan Uitenbroek

    (GGD Amsterdam Public Health Service, P.O. Box 2200, Amsterdam 1000CE, The Netherlands)

Abstract

The relation between responses to survey questions on noise annoyance and self-reported sleep disturbance has been analysed to gain insight in its dependency on noise source or noise type and on individual characteristics. The results show a high correlation between responses (scores 0–10) with Pearson’s correlation coefficient close to 0.8 for respondents who report hearing the source. At the same level of annoyance, scooters and neighbours are associated with more sleep disturbance, air and road traffic with less. The relation between Annoyance (A) and Sleep Disturbance (SD) is also significantly related to age, the use of sleeping drugs, and living alone. However, the differences in the A-SD relations with respect to source and characteristic are small. Noise-related sleep disturbance is associated more strongly to noise annoyance than it is to noise exposure. For transportation noise both scores are more often equal when the annoyance score is 7 or higher; this change in scoring behaviour could be an indication for a change to severe annoyance.

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  • Frits Van den Berg & Claudia Verhagen & Daan Uitenbroek, 2014. "The Relation between Scores on Noise Annoyance and Noise Disturbed Sleep in a Public Health Survey," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-14, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:11:y:2014:i:2:p:2314-2327:d:33251
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    1. Frits Van den Berg & Claudia Verhagen & Daan Uitenbroek, 2015. "The Relation between Self-Reported Worry and Annoyance from Air and Road Traffic," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-15, February.
    2. Eva-Maria Elmenhorst & Barbara Griefahn & Vinzent Rolny & Mathias Basner, 2019. "Comparing the Effects of Road, Railway, and Aircraft Noise on Sleep: Exposure–Response Relationships from Pooled Data of Three Laboratory Studies," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(6), pages 1-13, March.
    3. Virginia Puyana-Romero & Jose Luis Cueto & Giuseppe Ciaburro & Luis Bravo-Moncayo & Ricardo Hernandez-Molina, 2022. "Community Response to Noise from Hot-Spots at a Major Road in Quito (Ecuador) and Its Application for Identification and Ranking These Areas," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(3), pages 1-19, January.

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