Observational studyPloS one2016
Noise Annoyance Is Associated with Depression and Anxiety in the General Population- The Contribution of Aircraft Noise.
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97 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association between Noise Annoyance and Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Traffic Noise and Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
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- The Cardiovascular Effects of Noise.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2019Pooled it
- The impact of aircraft noise on vascular and cardiac function in relation to noise event number: a randomized trial.Cardiovascular research · 2021Trial
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- Validation of the Italian version of the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ) in a sample of adolescents.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Assessment of Noise Exposure in United States Urban Public Parks: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Social Media Depictions of the Impact of Noise Pollution on Communication and Mental and Physical Health.Journal of community health · 2025Article
- The U-Shape Association Between Noise and Individual Depression: Nationwide Longitudinal Evidence from Three Waves of CHARLS.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- Residential factors associated with mental health in United States Veterans, Air Force military, and Air Force employees.Indoor environments · 2025Article
- Study on the effects of traffic noise and spring water sound at different sound pressure levels on brain dynamic activity.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Community perceptions and mental burden among (former) residents at Europe's largest lignite mine in Western Germany: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The moderating effect of the psychosocial working conditions (effort/reward/overcommitment) on the association between noise annoyance and cognitive performance among adolescents.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Global hotspots and trends on environmental exposure and cardiovascular disease from 1999 to 2022.World journal of cardiology · 2025Article
- Transportation noise pollution as a cardiovascular risk factor: from epidemiological evidence to mechanistic insights.EXCLI journal · 2025Review
- Projecting the economic burden of health impacts of aircraft noise: a case study of Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025Article
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- Statistical estimation of noise induced hearing loss among the drivers in one of the most polluted cities of India.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Microglial activation in the lateral amygdala promotes anxiety-like behaviors in mice with chronic moderate noise exposure.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundWhile noise annoyance has become recognized as an important environmental stressor, its association to mental health has hardly been studied. We therefore determined the association of noise annoyance to anxiety and depression and explored the contribution of diverse environmental sources to overall noise annoyance. PATIENTS AND
methodsWe investigated cross-sectional data of n = 15.010 participants of the Gutenberg Health Study (GHS), a population-based, prospective, single-center cohort study in Mid-Germany (age 35 to 74 years). Noise annoyance was assessed separately for road traffic, aircraft, railways, industrial, neighborhood indoor and outdoor noise ("during the day"; "in your sleep") on 5-point scales ("not at all" to "extremely"); depression and anxiety were assessed by the PHQ-9, resp. GAD-2.
resultsDepression and anxiety increased with the degree of overall noise annoyance. Compared to no annoyance, prevalence ratios for depression, respectively anxiety increased from moderate (PR depression 1.20; 95%CI 1.00 to 1.45; PR anxiety 1.42; 95% CI 1.15 to 1.74) to extreme annoyance (PR depression 1.97; 95%CI 1.62 to 2.39; PR anxiety 2.14; 95% CI 1.71 to 2.67). Compared to other sources, aircraft noise annoyance was prominent affecting almost 60% of the population.
interpretationStrong noise annoyance was associated with a two-fold higher prevalence of depression and anxiety in the general population. While we could not relate annoyance due to aircraft noise directly to depression and anxiety, we established that it was the major source of annoyance in the sample, exceeding the other sources in those strongly annoyed. Prospective follow-up data will address the issue of causal relationships between annoyance and mental health.
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