ArticleJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2014
Association between ambient noise exposure and school performance of children living in an urban area: a cross-sectional population-based study.
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- Noise Indicators Relating to Non-Auditory Health Effects in Children-A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A Systematic Review on Environmental Noise and Cognition.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- Impact of Residential Noise Exposure on Neurological Health: A Systematic Scoping Review.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- Characterizing air and noise pollution and their determinants in elementary schools in Accra, Ghana.Environmental research, health : ERH · 2025Article
- Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Listening Inventory for Education-Revised in Italian.Audiology research · 2024Article
- ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON ACADEMIC PROFICIENCY.Current epidemiology reports · 2024Article
- Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children.Brain and language · 2022Article
- Association between moderated level of air pollution and fetal growth: the potential role of noise exposure.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The Role of Autosensitivity Control (ASC) in Cochlear Implant Recipients.Audiology research · 2021Article
- Annoyance Judgment and Measurements of Environmental Noise: A Focus on Italian Secondary Schools.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Noise Annoyance in Urban Children: A Cross-Sectional Population-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
- Psychotic disorder and educational achievement: a family-based analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2015Article
- Assessing residential exposure to urban noise using environmental models: does the size of the local living neighborhood matter?Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2015Article
- Integrated Effects of Environmental and Classroom Noise on Attention and Learning in School-age Children.Noise & healthReview
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Abstract
Most of the studies investigating the effects of the external noise on children's school performance have concerned pupils in schools exposed to high levels due to aircraft or freeway traffic noise. However, little is known about the consequences of the chronic ambient noise exposure at a level commonly encountered in residential urban areas. This study aimed to assess the relationship between the school performance of 8- to 9-year-old-children living in an urban environment and their chronic ambient noise exposure at home and at school. The children's school performances on the national standardized assessment test in French and mathematics were compared with the environmental noise levels. Children's exposure to ambient noise was calculated in front of their bedrooms (Lden) and schools (LAeq,day) using noise prediction modeling. Questionnaires were distributed to the families to collect potential confounding factors. Among the 746 respondent children, 586 were included in multilevel analyses. On average, the LAeq,day at school was 51.5 dB (SD= 4.5 dB; range = 38-58 dB) and the outdoor Lden at home was 56.4 dB (SD= 4.4 dB; range = 44-69 dB). LAeq,day at school was associated with impaired mathematics score (p = 0.02) or impaired French score (p = 0.01). For a + 10 dB gap, the French and mathematics scores were on average lower by about 5.5 points. Lden at home was significantly associated with impaired French performance when considered alone (p < 10(-3)) and was borderline significant when the combined home-school exposure was considered (p = 0.06). The magnitude of the observed effect on school performance may appear modest, but should be considered in light of the number of people who are potentially chronically exposed to similar environmental noise levels.
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