ArticleEnvironmental health : a global access science source2018
Aircraft noise and self-assessed mental health around a regional urban airport: a population based record linkage study.
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- 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
- IoT-Based Airport Noise Perception and Monitoring: Multi-Source Data Fusion, Spatial Distribution Modeling, and Analysis.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Contribution of Environmental Science to Mental Health Research: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Aircraft Noise Reduction Strategies and Analysis of the Effects.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Remote work: Aircraft noise implications, prediction, and management in the built environment.Applied acoustics. Acoustique applique. Angewandte Akustik · 2022Review
- Aircraft Noise Distribution as a Fairness Dilemma-A Review of Aircraft Noise through the Lens of Social Justice Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Aircraft noise control policy and mental health: a natural experiment based on the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA).Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2021Article
- The association between self-reported mental health, medication record and suicide risk: A population wide study.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Does physical ill-health increase the risk of suicide? A census-based follow-up study of over 1 million people.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2020Article
- Administrative Data Research Northern Ireland (ADR NI).International journal of population data science · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundLimited evidence suggests that residential exposure to aircraft noise negatively influences population mental health around large airports, but it is not known whether the same is true for smaller airports. We investigated whether residential exposure to aircraft noise near a regional urban airport was associated with risk of chronic self-assessed mental ill health.
methodsThis is a cross-sectional study of 198,532 people aged 18 years and over living in Belfast, United Kingdom, enumerated at the 2011 Census. Residential exposure to aircraft noise (L
resultsPrevalence of self-assessed mental ill health was greater in high noise (≥57 dB) compared to low noise (< 54 dB) areas (12.4% vs. 9.7%). We found no association between aircraft noise and risk of mental ill health after adjustment for socio-economic status (high vs. low noise odds ratio: 1.03 CI: 0.93, 1.14). DISCUSSION: Associations between aircraft noise and mental health have been reported near large airports at similar average noise levels to those observed here. Our findings indicate that the noise environment around this smaller airport (with fewer flights and no night flights) has little influence on population mental health.
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