The effect of industrial noise exposure on attention, reaction time, and memory

Zeydabadi, Alireza; Askari, Jafar; Vakili, Mahmood; Mirmohammadi, Seyyed Jalil; Ghovveh, Mohammad Ali; Mehrparvar, Amir Houshang

doi:10.1007/s00420-018-1361-0

Cited by 35 publications

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“…However, the effect of working environment variables such as lighting, noise, temperature, humidity and housekeeping on human performance cannot be ignored. All of these factors can degrade the cognitive functions, e.g., concentration, attention, reasoning, decision-making, etc., of employees and make them prone to occupational accidents [40,41]. The results of this study did not undervalue the effect of working conditions on safety performance or occupational accidents, but they explained that there are other variables which are more important than working environment conditions.…”

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confidence: 55%

Analysis of occupational accidents among nurses working in hospitals based on safety climate and safety performance: a Bayesian network analysis

Ghasemi

Aghaei

Askaripoor

et al. 2020

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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Purpose. This study aimed to analyze causal relationships among safety climate dimensions, safety performance dimensions and occupational accidents for nurses working in hospitals. Methods. Data were gathered from questionnaires filled in by nurses from three public hospitals. To analyze interactions among variables, a Bayesian network (BN) analysis was conducted. Using the function of BN 'belief updating', variables with the highest influences on occupational accidents were determined. Results. A total of 211 nurses participated in this study. They were mainly female and married. The results showed that 39.3% of nurses experienced occupational accidents during the last 12 months before the study. Less than half of the nurses had an acceptable safety performance. Safety participation had the highest influence on occupational accidents, followed by safety compliance. Reporting of errors had the highest score among the safety climate dimensions. Training of nurses was necessary for improving both safety compliance and safety participation, and thereby reducing occupational accidents. Conclusion. The effect of safety participation on occupational accidents among nurses was higher than that of safety compliance. Among the safety climate dimensions, supervisors' attitude to safety and safety training had the highest effects on both nurses' safety performance and occupational accidents.

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confidence: 55%

Analysis of occupational accidents among nurses working in hospitals based on safety climate and safety performance: a Bayesian network analysis

Ghasemi

Aghaei

Askaripoor

et al. 2020

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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“…78 They can be adversely influenced by noise exposure. 98 Therefore, SIN performance might serve as a complex auditory-cognitive metric sensitive to noise-induced decline in audition and cognition. 59 Our results provide supporting evidence suggesting a potential role of SIN tests for evaluating and monitoring early-stage NIHL in young adults.…”

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“…Intense acoustic exposures influence peripheral, central, and cognitive processes underlying SIN perception. 90,[95][96][97][98] Noise can induce cochlear hair cell loss and cochlear synaptopathy that can disrupt suprathreshold neural coding at the cochlear nerve. 34,35,37,99 Noise exposure is also associated with impaired central auditory processing.…”

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Suprathreshold Auditory Measures for Detecting Early-Stage Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Young Adults

2022

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Background Over 1 billion young adults are at risk for developing noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) due to their habit of listening to music at loud levels. The gold standard for detecting NIHL is the audiometric notch around 3,000 to 6,000 Hz observed in pure tone audiogram. However, recent studies suggested that suprathreshold auditory measures might be more sensitive to detect early-stage NIHL in young adults. Purpose The present study compared suprathreshold measures in individuals with high and low noise exposure backgrounds (NEBs). We hypothesized that individuals with high NEB would exhibit reduced performance on suprathreshold measures than those with low NEB. Study sample An initial sample of 100 English-speaking healthy adults (18–35 years; females = 70) was obtained from five university classes. We identified 15 participants with the lowest NEB scores (10 females) and 15 participants with the highest NEB scores (10 females). We selected a sample of healthy young adults with no history of middle ear infection, and those in the low NEB group were selected with no history of impulse noise exposure. Data collection and analysis The study included conventional audiometry, extended high-frequency audiometry, middle ear muscle reflex (MEMR) thresholds, distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs), QuickSIN, and suprathreshold auditory brainstem response (ABR) measures. We used independent sample t-tests, correlation coefficients, and linear mixed model analysis to compare the audiometric measures between the NEB groups. Results The prevalence of audiometric notch was low in the study sample, even for individuals with high NEB. We found that: (1) individuals with high NEB revealed significantly reduced QuickSIN performance than those with low NEB; (2) music exposure via earphone revealed a significant association with QuickSIN; (3) individuals with high NEB revealed significantly reduced DPOAEs and ABR wave I amplitude compared with individuals with low NEB; (4) MEMR and ABR latency measures showed a modest association with NEB; and (5) audiometric thresholds across the frequency range did not show statistically significant association with NEB. Conclusion Our results suggest that young adults with high NEB might exhibit impaired peripheral neural coding deficits leading to reduced speech-in-noise (SIN) performance despite clinically normal hearing thresholds. SIN measures might be more sensitive than audiometric notch for detecting early-stage NIHL in young adults.

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“…Finally, it has been shown that exposure to noise has been related with cognitive impairment including effects over attention, verbal and nonverbal learning, anxiety and memory (Tzivian et al, 2015;Zeydabadi et al, 2019). It is possible that effects of noise over cognitive processes were mediated by the activation of two neural systems, i) stress-mediated hippocampal function (Barzegar et al, 2015) and ii) stress-defendant hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (Jafari, Mehla, Kolb, & Mohajerani, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Altogether, the effects of long term traffic noise exposure are reflected in increased levels of mortality by conditions like myocardial infarction along with type II diabetes (Barceló et al, 2016). In addition to health issues, it has been shown that higher noise levels induce cognitive disruptions over attention and memory in both adults (Zeydabadi et al, 2019) and children (Foraster et al, 2019). Interestingly, pregnant mothers exposed to noise leads to postnatal increase of anxiety and cortisol, impaired spatial memory and affected hippocampal plasticity in both mother and child (Barzegar, Sajjadi, Talaei, Hamidi, & Salami, 2015).…”

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Environmental noise is differently associated with negative and positive urban experience: an exploratory first-person pedestrian mobile study in Santiago de Chile

Palacios-Garcia,

Luarte,

Herrmann-Lunecke

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Urban environments are increasing worldwide, providing access to public facilities. Nevertheless, specific city features such as environmental noise have been related to health detriments. Deleterious effects of noise in health might depend on socioeconomic and demographic factors. The present mixed-method exploratory study examines the relationship between first-person experience while walking through neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile. Geo-referenced mobile eye-tracking measured first-person audio-visual perceptual experience while interviewed. Logistic regression was used to study the relationship between environmental noise, socioeconomic status, and specific ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ self-reported experiences during walking.Our results suggest that reporting negative experiences depends on environmental noise levels for higher and middle-income neighborhoods. However, in lower-income neighborhoods, higher environmental noise was associated with positive experiences, while lower noise was reported as negative.We interpret these results considering that access to public facilities (e.g. supermarkets, banks) is usually concentrated along main, noisy streets and, in lower-income neighborhoods, this meant benefits of urbanicity (i.e. access to services and facilities, green areas). Furthermore, our results suggest an impact of urban planning and development on socio-economic inequality.

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The effect of industrial noise exposure on attention, reaction time, and memory

Cited by 35 publications

References 21 publications

Analysis of occupational accidents among nurses working in hospitals based on safety climate and safety performance: a Bayesian network analysis

Analysis of occupational accidents among nurses working in hospitals based on safety climate and safety performance: a Bayesian network analysis

Suprathreshold Auditory Measures for Detecting Early-Stage Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Young Adults

Environmental noise is differently associated with negative and positive urban experience: an exploratory first-person pedestrian mobile study in Santiago de Chile

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