SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
Road Traffic Noise Exposure and Depression/Anxiety: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- 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
- 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
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- Mental health effects of exposure to environmental noise at home: A systematic review of potential mediating pathways.Noise & healthPooled it
- The effect of brief exposure to virtual nature on mental wellbeing in adolescents.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
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- A study on the coupling mechanism between the urban environment and depression perception based on deep learning and street view image.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Exploring the relationship between mental health and urban green space soundscapes: A scoping review.PloS one · 2026Article
- Effect of noise and green space exposure on depression, anxiety and stress among the Lebanese population.PloS one · 2026Article
- Traffic jams: music and traffic noise interact to influence the vividness, sentiment, and spatiotemporal properties of directed mental imagery.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2026Article
- Noise matters: assessing non-auditory health impacts of occupational noise exposure among factory workers.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Rethinking Urbanicity: Conceptualizing Neighborhood Effects on Women's Mental Health in Kampala's Urban Slums.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Comprehensive perceptions at the interface between health and environment: Applications models with a citizen science tool.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- Urban mental health: a position paper of the European psychiatric association.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Review
- Bionic Intelligent Interaction Helmet: A Multifunctional-Design Anxiety-Alleviation Device Controlled by STM32.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 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
- 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
- The increased risk of exposure to fine particulate matter for depression incidence is mediated by elevated TNF-R1: the Healthy Aging Longitudinal Study.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Unlike other World Health Organization evidence reviews, the systematic review on mental disorders could not provide a quantitative estimate of the effect of environmental noise. With that in mind, we aimed to update it with additional studies published through to 18 August 2019 in order to allow for a formal meta-analysis of the association of residential road traffic noise with anxiety and depression. The quality effects and random effects estimators were used for meta-analysis and the robustness of findings was tested in several sensitivity analyses. Ten studies were included in the qualitative synthesis, from which we extracted 15 estimates for depression (n = 1,201,168) and five for anxiety (n = 372,079). Almost all studies were cross-sectional and the risk of bias in them was generally high. We found 4% (95% CI: -3%, 11%) higher odds of depression and 12% (95% CI: -4%, 30%) of anxiety associated with a 10 dB(A) increase in day-evening-night noise level (L
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