ArticleEnvironmental health : a global access science source2017
Road traffic noise and children's inattention.
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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
- Evidence for Environmental Noise Effects on Health for the United Kingdom Policy Context: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Environmental Noise on Mental Health, Wellbeing, Quality of Life, Cancer, Dementia, Birth, Reproductive Outcomes, and Cognition.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Environmental Noise Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Mental Health Problems in Children: a Systematic Review.Current environmental health reports · 2018Pooled it
- Environmental Noise Exposure and the Risk of Sleep Disturbance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Noise & healthPooled it
- Convolutional neural network approach for accelerated traffic noise mapping.Scientific reports · 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
- Neighborhood influences on the development of self-regulation among children of color living in historically disinvested neighborhoods: Moderators and mediating mechanisms.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Early life multiple exposures and child cognitive function: A multi-centric birth cohort study in six European countries.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2021Article
- Use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to identify confounders in applied health research: review and recommendations.International journal of epidemiology · 2021Review
- Associations between road traffic noise exposure at home and school and ADHD in school-aged children: the TRAILS study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
- Environmental noise and sleep and mental health outcomes in a nationally representative sample of urban US adolescents.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2019Article
- Quantitative Bias Analysis for Collaborative Science.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2018Article
- A Longitudinal Study of Road Traffic Noise and Body Mass Index Trajectories from Birth to 8 Years.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2018Article
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backgroundAn increasing number of children are exposed to road traffic noise levels that may lead to adverse effects on health and daily functioning. Childhood is a period of intense growth and brain maturation, and children may therefore be especially vulnerable to road traffic noise. The objective of the present study was to examine whether road traffic noise was associated with reported inattention symptoms in children, and whether this association was mediated by sleep duration.
methodsThis study was based on the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study conducted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Parental reports of children's inattention at age 8 were linked to modelled levels of residential road traffic noise. We investigated the association between inattention and noise exposure during pregnancy (n = 1934), noise exposure averaged over 5 years (age 3 to 8 years; n = 1384) and noise exposure at age 8 years (n = 1384), using fractional logit response models. The participants were children from Oslo, Norway.
resultsAn association with inattention at age 8 years was found for road traffic noise exposure at age 8 years (coef = .0083, CI = [.0012, .0154]; 1.2% point increase in inattention score per 10 dB increase in noise level), road traffic noise exposure average for the last 5 years (coef = .0090, CI = [.0016, .0164]; 1.3% point increase/10 dB), and for pregnancy road traffic noise exposure for boys (coef = .0091, CI = [.0010, .0171]), but not girls (coef = -.0021, CI = [-.0094, .0053]). Criteria for doing mediation analyses were not fulfilled.
conclusionResults indicate that road traffic noise has a negative impact on children's inattention. We found no mediation by sleep duration.
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