ArticleNoise & health
Mediating Role of Building Vibration Noise in the Relationship between Housing Type and Mental Health: Evidence from a Taiwanese Online Survey.
Article in Noise & health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesPrior research has documented associations between environmental noise and mental health; however, the impact of building vibration noise remains unclear. This study aimed to test a mediation model evaluating whether specific noise types mediate the association between housing type and mental health among adults in Taiwan.
methodsCross-sectional data of 776 participants obtained from an online survey conducted from December 1, 2024 to May 31, 2025 were analyzed. The participants rated subjective levels of road-traffic noise, railway noise, and building vibration noise. Mental health outcomes included sleep quality, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and suicidality. Mediation analysis with nonparametric bootstrapping (5000 resamples) was used to test mediation.
resultsResiding in an apartment/condominium had a significantly indirect mediating effect on poorer mental health (estimates of the indirect effect: 0.225, P < 0.001 for sleep quality, 0.431, P < 0.001 for anxiety, 0.412, P < 0.001 for depression, and 0.062, P = 0.024 for suicide risk), and this association was mediated by higher levels of building vibration noise. However, road-traffic and railway noise did not show significant mediation effects.
conclusionsBuilding vibration noise appears to be a key pathway linking living in an apartment/condominium to adverse mental health outcomes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.