Long term sleep disturbance due to traffic noise

Vallet, Michel; Gagneux, J M; Blanchet, V.; Favre, B; Labiale, G.

doi:10.1016/0022-460x(83)90527-8

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“…Neither sleep measure in the second post-intervention study produced significantly different results from the first post-intervention study, indicating a lasting effect of improved subjective sleep. To the best of our knowledge, only a few previous studies reported effects on sleep due to changes in traffic noise exposure ( € Ohrst€ om, 2004;€ Ohrstr€ om and Bj€ orkman, 1983;Vallet et al, 1983), and our results align with the previous results. Our results provide further evidence that nocturnal noise reduction significantly improves subjective sleep quality and also indicate that people do not fully adapt to nocturnal noise.…”

Section: B Sleep Disturbances and Possible Long-term Effectssupporting

confidence: 95%

Long-term effects of noise reduction measures on noise annoyance and sleep disturbance: The Norwegian facade insulation study

Amundsen

Klæboe

Aasvang

2013

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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The Norwegian facade insulation study includes one pre-intervention and two post-intervention surveys. The facade-insulating measures reduced indoor noise levels by 7 dB on average. Before the intervention, 43% of the respondents were highly annoyed by noise. Half a year after the intervention, the proportion of respondents who were highly annoyed by road traffic noise had been significantly reduced to 15%. The second post-intervention study (2 yr after the first post-intervention study) showed that the proportion of highly annoyed respondents had not changed since the first post-intervention study. The reduction in the respondents' self-reported sleep disturbances (due to traffic noise) also remained relatively stable from the first to the second post-intervention study. In the control group, there were no statistically significant differences in annoyance between the pre-intervention and the two post-intervention studies. Previous studies of traffic changes have reported that people "overreact" to noise changes. This study indicated that when considering a receiver measure, such as facade insulation, the effect of reducing indoor noise levels could be predicted from exposure-response curves based on previous studies. Thus no evidence of an "overreaction" was found.

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Section: B Sleep Disturbances and Possible Long-term Effectssupporting

confidence: 95%

Long-term effects of noise reduction measures on noise annoyance and sleep disturbance: The Norwegian facade insulation study

Amundsen

Klæboe

Aasvang

2013

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…Intermittent noise exposures, like aircraft noise as well as intermittent road traffic noise, have been found to reduce either REM sleep or slow wave sleep (SWS) or both Vallet et al 1983;Kawada and Suzuki, 1999). In a laboratory study of young adults , sleep efficiency was significantly reduced, the amount of SWS was reduced and S1 sleep increased after exposure to railway noise, whereas no significant effect on REM sleep was observed.…”

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“…In a laboratory study of young adults , sleep efficiency was significantly reduced, the amount of SWS was reduced and S1 sleep increased after exposure to railway noise, whereas no significant effect on REM sleep was observed. According to Vallet et al (1983), the effects of nocturnal noise may be age dependent. Effects of noise were found on % SWS, particularly in younger subjects (age < 30 yr) not habitually exposed to nocturnal noise, and % REM in older subjects (age > 60 yr) after long-term exposure.…”

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A field study of effects of road traffic and railway noise on polysomnographic sleep parameters

Aasvang

Øverland

Ursin

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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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The aim of this study was to explore and compare the effect of noise from railway and road traffic on sleep in subjects habitually exposed to nocturnal noise. Forty young and middle aged healthy subjects were studied with polysomnography (PSG) during two consecutive nights in their own bedroom. Noise measurements and recordings were conducted concurrently outside of the bedroom façade as well as inside the bedroom of each participant. Different noise exposure parameters were calculated (L(p,A,eq,night), L(p,A,Fmax,night), and L(AF5,night)) and analyzed in relation to whole-night sleep parameters. The group exposed to railway noise had significantly less Rapid eye movement, (REM) sleep than the group exposed to road traffic noise. A significant association was found between the maximum level (L(p,A,Fmax,night)) of railway noise and time spent in REM sleep. REM sleep was significantly shorter in the group exposed to at least a single railway noise event above 50 dB inside the bedroom. These results, obtained in an ecological valid setting, support previous laboratory findings that railway noise has a stronger impact than road traffic noise on physiological parameters during sleep, and that the maximum noise level is an important predictor of noise effects on sleep assessed by PSG, at least for railway noise.

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“…In field studies it was found that the noise of a single event (airplane overflight, truck passage) can cause the following instantaneous effects: extra motility (Fidell, Pearsons, Tabachnick, & Hower, 2000; Horne, Pankhurst, Reyner, Hume, & Diamond, 1994; Passchier‐Vermeer, Griefahn, & Moehler, 2005; Passchier‐Vermeer, Vos, Steenbekkers, Van de Ploeg, & Groothuis‐Oudshoorn, 2002), change in sleep state and EEG arousals (Basner et al, 2004; Hume, Van, & Watson, 2003; Pearsons, Bennett, & Fidell, 1973; Vallet, Gagneux, & Blanchet, 1983; Vernet, 1979), momentary change in heart beat parameters (Carter, Ingham, Tran, & Hunyor, 1994; Hofman, Kumar, & Tulen, 1995; Wilkinson & Campbell, 1984), and conscious awakening (Fidell, Pearsons, & Tabachnick, 1995; Fidell et al, 2000; Passchier‐Vermeer et al, 2002). The health consequences of instantaneous effects are not yet fully understood.…”

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Annoyance Caused by Environmental Noise: Elements for Evidence‐Based Noise Policies

Miedema¹

2007

Journal of Social Issues

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Because effects of environmental noise do not require extremely high or long exposures, they occur, with different degrees of intensity, in a substantial part of the world population, especially in areas with a dense population and dense transportation networks. As a consequence, noise is a global issue that continues to detract from sustainable development. This article attempts to contribute to evidence-based noise policies by providing a review and systematization of noiseeffects modeling and findings. The results presented can be used in noise abatement policy to find the best practical ways of reducing noise-induced effects through the reduction of noise exposure. At present, it is possible to calculate noise maps showing the exposures to noise in residential areas. With the relationships between exposure and effects as presented here, these can be translated into estimates of the number of people affected. Estimates of effects can be made on the basis of existing noise exposures, but also on the basis of scenarios for future noise levels, so that the consequences of different scenarios can be explored and decisions with respect to noise abatement measures can be optimized. Such an evidence-based approach may be instrumental in reducing the worldwide burden of environmental noise.Environmental noise causes adverse effects, and it is widespread and increasing. Lambert and Vallet (1994) estimated that in the European Union during daytime approximately 77 million people (i.e., 22% of the total population of the EU in 1994) were exposed to transportation noise levels exceeding 65 dB--a level that many countries consider to be unacceptable. Almost 170 million Europeans (49 %) lived in what the authors call gray zones, that is, zones which do not ensure acoustic comfort to residents. Depending on the country, road traffic noise

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Long term sleep disturbance due to traffic noise

Cited by 65 publications

References 5 publications

Long-term effects of noise reduction measures on noise annoyance and sleep disturbance: The Norwegian facade insulation study

Long-term effects of noise reduction measures on noise annoyance and sleep disturbance: The Norwegian facade insulation study

A field study of effects of road traffic and railway noise on polysomnographic sleep parameters

Annoyance Caused by Environmental Noise: Elements for Evidence‐Based Noise Policies

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