Annoyance toward transportation and construction noise in rural suburban and urban regions across Canada

Michaud, David S.; Marro, Leonora; Denning, Allison; Shackleton, Shelley; Toutant, Nicolas; McNamee, James P.

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106881

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“…Of the 330 papers, 321 full-text articles were excluded with reasons: 165 articles investigating people with normal hearing only or dismissing assessments of subjects' hearing profiles. As a result, nine original research articles [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] were included in this systematized review (Fig. 1).…”

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“…Of the nine included papers, two papers [23,24] built upon a single cross-sectional study: both shared the same sample from the same survey questionnaire. Therefore, the present review identified nine papers from eight unique studies.…”

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“…Therefore, the present review identified nine papers from eight unique studies. Four studies were conducted in North America (n = 2 in USA, n = 2 in Canada) [17,[21][22][23], three in Europe (n = 2 in Spain, n = 1 in Italy) [18][19][20]. One study [16] surveyed 48 countries worldwide; although, the majority respondents were either from North America (USA, Canada) or Europe (EU countries and UK).…”

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“…One study [16] surveyed 48 countries worldwide; although, the majority respondents were either from North America (USA, Canada) or Europe (EU countries and UK). Most studies have done their data collection during the earlier phases of the pandemic (from April 2020 to July 2020) while two studies [20,23] gathered the data during the later pandemic phases (from April 2021 to September 2021). Pandemic-related situations, such as lockdown restrictions, of the above-mentioned study locations widely differed depending upon the date of data collection as well as the province/state where this data collection was conducted.…”

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“…Another study in Iowa, USA [17] had no "stay-at-home" order (i.e., statewide lockdown) although non-essential businesses were closed, and large gatherings were restricted. Of those conducted in the later phases, one study conducted a survey one year after the beginning of the lockdown in Italy [20] and the other performed data collection overlapped with a nationwide lockdown during Canada's third wave of the pandemic [23].…”

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The Acoustic Environment and People with Hearing Impairments during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hasegawa

2022

Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023

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Hearing impairment is a global concern that remains understudied and unaddressed. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic exacerbated auditory and healthrelated matters among people with hearing impairments. However, how the pandemic changed their acoustic environments and modified their soundscape experiences has yet to be reviewed. This systematized review aims to summarize unprecedented changes in acoustic environments experienced by people with hearing impairments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Papers related to pandemic soundscape experiences among individuals with hearing impairments, including hearing loss, tinnitus, and auditory-related symptoms, were selected for this review. The literature search was conducted in February 2023. Based on the qualitative summary of the nine included articles, this review shows that the increased quieting of everyday environments was observed among people with hearing impairments during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., lockdown periods). However, this pandemic quietness may have induced some adverse consequences: potentially degraded speech abilities for people with hearing loss and exacerbated the perceptions of tinnitus or misophonia due to the enhanced indoor noises. These findings suggest that the inclusion of the diverse auditory perceptions will be a key for the new normal soundscape agenda to proceed toward postpandemic era.

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