ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2015
Health Effects of Noise Exposure in Children.
Review in Current environmental health reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04833686 (The Effect of Music and Environmental Noise Isolation on Bronchiolitis Severity in Hospitalized Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 59 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Effect of Music and Environmental Noise Isolation on Bronchiolitis Severity in Hospitalized Children: a Randomized Control Trial
Who cites it
59 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effect of low-frequency noise exposure on cognitive function: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- School-Based Interventions to Support Healthy Indoor and Outdoor Environments for Children: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- The Effects of Noise on Cognitive Performance and Helplessness in Childhood: A Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Noise Indicators Relating to Non-Auditory Health Effects in Children-A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Traffic-related environmental factors and childhood obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Behavioral and Emotional Disorders and Transportation Noise among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A Systematic Review on Environmental Noise and Quality of Life, Wellbeing and Mental Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- Environmental Noise Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Mental Health Problems in Children: a Systematic Review.Current environmental health reports · 2018Pooled 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
- Mental health effects of exposure to environmental noise at home: A systematic review of potential mediating pathways.Noise & healthPooled it
- Exposure of children to multiple long-term air pollutants (PMEnvironmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2026Article
- Self-Reported Non-Auditory Effects of High Sound Pressure Levels Exposure in Academic Musicians in Uruguay.La Medicina del lavoro · 2026Article
- Noise matters: assessing non-auditory health impacts of occupational noise exposure among factory workers.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Association Between Residential Exposure to Road Traffic Noise and Psychological Health in Preschool Children.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- The Relationship between Noise Pollution and Depression and Implications for Healthy Aging: A Spatial Analysis Using Routinely Collected Primary Care Data.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- Urban Noise Pollution in Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana: Implications for Public Health and Quality of Life.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2025Article
- Neurodevelopmental costs of noise pollution-is history rhyming again?Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025Review
- The Built Environment and Childhood Obesity.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2024Review
- Experimental playback of urban noise does not affect cognitive performance in captive Australian magpies.Biology open · 2024Article
- The Health-Related and Learning Performance Effects of Air Pollution and Other Urban-Related Environmental Factors on School-Age Children and Adolescents-A Scoping Review of Systematic Reviews.Current environmental health reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Environmental noise exposure, such as road traffic noise and aircraft noise, is associated with a range of health outcomes in children. Children demonstrate annoyance responses to noise, and noise is also related to lower well-being and stress responses, such as increased levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Noise does not cause more serious mental health problems, but there is growing evidence for an association with increased hyperactivity symptoms. Studies also suggest that noise might cause changes in cardiovascular functioning, and there is some limited evidence for an effect on low birth weight. There is robust evidence for an effect of school noise exposure on children's cognitive skills such as reading and memory, as well as on standardised academic test scores. Environmental noise does not usually reach levels that are likely to affect children's hearing; however, increasing use of personal electronic devices may leave some children exposed to harmful levels of noise.
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