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2016-09-26Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.3390/ijerph13100954
Environmental Noise Annoyance and Mental Health in Adults: Findings from the Cross-Sectional German Health Update (GEDA) Study 2012
dc.contributor.authorHammersen, Friederike
dc.contributor.authorNiemann, Hildegard
dc.contributor.authorHoebel, Jens
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-07T19:36:12Z
dc.date.available2018-05-07T19:36:12Z
dc.date.created2016-12-20
dc.date.issued2016-09-26none
dc.identifier.otherhttp://edoc.rki.de/oa/articles/reMCrzYqEmTI2/PDF/22LQQJlbVfkLM.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.rki.de/176904/2504
dc.description.abstractThe health implications of environmental noise, especially cardiovascular effects, have been studied intensively. Research on associations between noise and mental health, however, has shown contradictory results. The present study examined associations between individual levels of noise annoyance due to noise from various sources in the living environment and mental health of adults in Germany. It evaluated whether these associations persisted after adjusting for potential covariates. Data were obtained from the cross-sectional “German Health Update” study 2012 (GEDA 2012), a national health interview survey among adults in Germany conducted by the Robert Koch Institute (n = 19,294). Noise annoyance questions referred to overall noise and that from road traffic, neighbours, and air traffic. Mental health was measured with the five-item Mental Health Inventory. Bivariate analysis showed associations between high levels of noise annoyance and impaired mental health for all noise sources except air traffic. After adjusting for covariates (sociodemographic factors, chronic disease, and social support), both men and women who reported high overall noise annoyance showed more than doubled odds of impaired mental health compared to those who were not annoyed. The odds of impaired mental health in the highest noise annoyance category from road traffic and neighbours were also significantly increased. These findings indicate that high noise annoyance is associated with impaired mental health and that this association can vary with the source of environmental noise. Further research on covariates of this association is necessary. Particularly, longitudinal data are required to establish the direction of associations and to address questions of causalityeng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRobert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
dc.subjectmental healtheng
dc.subjectnoiseeng
dc.subjectnoise annoyanceeng
dc.subjecttransportation noiseeng
dc.subjectenvironmental noiseeng
dc.subjectICBENeng
dc.subjectnoise pollutioneng
dc.subjectMHI-5eng
dc.subjectmental disordereng
dc.subjectenvironmental healtheng
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin
dc.titleEnvironmental Noise Annoyance and Mental Health in Adults: Findings from the Cross-Sectional German Health Update (GEDA) Study 2012
dc.typeperiodicalPart
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0257-10050430
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph13100954
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25646/2429
local.edoc.container-titleInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
local.edoc.fp-subtypeArtikel
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
local.edoc.container-urlhttp://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/10/954
local.edoc.container-publisher-nameMDPI
local.edoc.container-volume13
local.edoc.container-issue10
local.edoc.container-year2016

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