Trends in aircraft noise annoyance: The role of study and sample characteristics

Janssen, Sabine A.; Vos, Henk; Kempen, E.E.M.M. van; Breugelmans, Oscar; Miedema, Harald S.

doi:10.1121/1.3533739

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“…Several papers on possible changes in the annoyance response to noise have recently been published (van Kempen and van Kamp, 2005;Janssen et al, 2011). In a new report from the European Commission (Stansfeld et al, 2015), Janssen and Guski present a summary of aircraft noise studies conducted over the past 30-40 years.…”

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Community response to noise in Vietnam: Exposure-response relationships based on the community tolerance level

Gjestland

Nguyen

Yano

2015

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Social surveys on noise annoyance have been conducted in five different cities in Vietnam. The surveys included both aircraft noise (three airports) and road traffic noise (five cities). The main objective for these studies was to establish dose-response functions that were representative for Vietnam. The results have been compared with results from similar surveys from other regions. Dose-response functions for aircraft noise in Vietnam showing the percentage of highly annoyed people versus the noise level are nearly identical to those presented in the European Noise Directive [European Commission (2002). http://ec.europa.eu/environment/noise/directive.htm]. For road traffic noise, however, the results indicate that people in Vietnam are more tolerant. The noise levels can be increased by 5-10 dB in order to have a response similar to the curve recommended by the European Commission.

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confidence: 96%

Community response to noise in Vietnam: Exposure-response relationships based on the community tolerance level

Gjestland

Nguyen

Yano

2015

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…The association between noise exposure and noise annoyance has been extensively investigated, and aircraft noise has been found to be the most annoying noise source among all transportation noise sources when standardized for noise exposure level [6]. Recently, it has been suggested that annoyance due to aircraft noise has increased in previous years [5,16,17]. …”

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confidence: 99%

Aircraft Noise and Psychological Ill-Health: The Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in France

Baudin

Lefèvre

Champelovier³

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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Background: The effects of aircraft noise on psychological ill-health have not been largely investigated and remain to be discussed. No study has been performed in France on the health effects of aircraft noise. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between aircraft noise in dB and in terms of annoyance and psychological ill-health in populations living near airports in France. Methods: A total of 1244 individuals older than 18 and living near three French airports (Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Lyon–Saint-Exupéry and Toulouse–Blagnac) were randomly selected to participate in the study. Information about their personal medical history and socioeconomic and lifestyle factors was collected by means of a face-to-face questionnaire performed at their place of residence by an interviewer. Psychological ill-health was evaluated with the 12-item version of the General Heath Questionnaire (GHQ-12). For each participant, outdoor aircraft noise exposure in dB was estimated by linking their home address to noise maps. Objective noise exposure in dB was considered to be the primary exposure of interest. Four noise indicators referring to three different periods of the day were derived and used for the statistical analyses: Lden, LAeq,24hr, LAeq,6hr–22hr, and Lnight. Noise annoyance and noise sensitivity were the secondary risk factors of interest. Logistic regression models were used with adjustment for potential confounders. Results: The participation rate in the study was 30%. Approximately 22% of the participants were considered to have psychological ill-health according to the GHQ-12. No direct association was found between exposure to aircraft noise in dB and psychological ill-health. However, annoyance due to aircraft noise and noise sensitivity were both significantly associated with psychological ill-health. Moreover, a gradient was evidenced between annoyance and psychological ill-health, with increasing ORs from 1.79 (95% CI 1.06–3.03) for people who were not all annoyed to 4.00 (95% CI 1.67–9.55) for extremely annoyed people. Conclusions: These findings confirm the results of previous studies, suggesting there is no direct association between aircraft noise exposure in dB and psychological ill-health, but there is a significant relationship between noise sensitivity or annoyance due to aircraft noise and psychological ill-health. This supports the hypothesis that psychological aspects, such as noise annoyance and noise sensitivity, play important roles in the association between environmental noise and adverse effects on health. However, further studies are necessary in order to better understand the links between these variables.

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“…Small changes in design, wording, item positioning, but also survey context or season may introduce variance of annoyance ratings which compromises the reliability and comparability of findings [1,2,3,4]. Owing to this, the research on survey context in the noise annoyance domain [5,6] and research about effects of the annoyance measurement scale employed [7,8] has recently gathered momentum.…”

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Effects of Scale, Question Location, Order of Response Alternatives, and Season on Self-Reported Noise Annoyance Using ICBEN Scales: A Field Experiment

Brink

Schreckenberg

Vienneau

et al. 2016

IJERPH

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Abstract:The type of noise annoyance scale and aspects of its presentation such as response format or location within a questionnaire and other contextual factors may affect self-reported noise annoyance. By means of a balanced experimental design, the effect of type of annoyance question and corresponding scale (5-point verbal vs. 11-point numerical ICBEN (International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise) scale), presentation order of scale points (ascending vs. descending), question location (early vs. late within the questionnaire), and survey season (autumn vs. spring) on reported road traffic noise annoyance was investigated in a postal survey with a stratified random sample of 2386 Swiss residents. Our results showed that early appearance of annoyance questions was significantly associated with higher annoyance scores. Questionnaires filled out in autumn were associated with a significantly higher annoyance rating than in the springtime. No effect was found for the order of response alternatives. Standardized average annoyance scores were slightly higher using the 11-point numerical scale whereas the percentage of highly annoyed respondents was higher based on the 5-point scale, using common cutoff points. In conclusion, placement and presentation of annoyance questions within a questionnaire, as well as the time of the year a survey is carried out, have small but demonstrable effects on the degree of self-reported noise annoyance.

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Trends in aircraft noise annoyance: The role of study and sample characteristics

Cited by 44 publications

References 29 publications

Community response to noise in Vietnam: Exposure-response relationships based on the community tolerance level

Community response to noise in Vietnam: Exposure-response relationships based on the community tolerance level

Aircraft Noise and Psychological Ill-Health: The Results of a Cross-Sectional Study in France

Effects of Scale, Question Location, Order of Response Alternatives, and Season on Self-Reported Noise Annoyance Using ICBEN Scales: A Field Experiment

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