Associations between noise sensitivity and sleep, subjectively evaluated sleep quality, annoyance, and performance after exposure to nocturnal traffic noise
TL;DR: The results suggest that alterations of subjective evaluation of sleep were determined by physical parameters of the noise but modified by individual factors like noise sensitivity.
Abstract: In order to determine the influence of noise sensitivity on sleep, subjective sleep quality, annoyance, and performance after nocturnal exposure to traffic noise, 12 women and 12 men (age range, 19-28 years) were observed during four consecutive nights over a three weeks period. After a habituation night, the participants were exposed with weekly permuted changes to air, rail and road traffic noise. Of the four nights, one was a quiet night (32 dBA), while three were noisy nights with exposure to equivalent noise levels of 39, 44, and 50 dBA in a permuted order. The traffic noise caused alterations of most of the physiological parameters, subjective evaluation of sleep, annoyance, and performance. Correlations were found between noise sensitivity and subjective sleep quality in terms of worsened restoration, decreased calmness, difficulty to fall asleep, and body movements. The results suggest that alterations of subjective evaluation of sleep were determined by physical parameters of the noise but modified by individual factors like noise sensitivity.
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TL;DR: Vibration and noise were additive regarding their effect on cortical arousal and sleep stage change, demonstrating that both exposures differentially contribute to sleep fragmentation.
Abstract: Sleep is a vital component of good health, and sleep loss is associated with impaired cognition, decreased psychomotor performance, cardiovascular disease, adverse effects on endocrine and metabolic function, negative mood, impaired memory, and more. A growing burden of freight transportation on global railway networks will likely lead to an increase in nocturnal vibration and noise at nearby dwellings. However, there is currently limited knowledge on how railway freight vibration and noise may disrupt sleep. Over a series of laboratory studies in young healthy adults, the effect of vibration and noise from railway freight was investigated. Objective sleep was recorded with polysomnography, cardiac activity was recorded with electrocardiography and subjective sleep quality and disturbance was recorded with questionnaires. Increased cardiac activation occurred at vibration amplitudes only slightly above wakeful perceptual detection thresholds. Arousals, awakenings and alterations of sleep structure began to manifest at only slightly higher vibration amplitudes. With increasing vibration amplitude, heart rate and the probability of event-related cortical response increased in a dose-dependent manner, with accompanying adverse effects on perceived sleep quality and sleep disturbance. Perceived disturbance was more pronounced among noisesensitive individuals, although no significant physiologic differences were found relative to non-sensitive counterparts. Rather than affecting overall sleep architecture, vibration and noise interfered with the normal rhythms of sleep, although the impact of this on long-term physical and mental health is currently unclear. Cardiac response persisted with increasing number of events, indicating an absence of habituation. Vibration and noise were additive regarding their effect on cortical arousal and sleep stage change, demonstrating that both exposures differentially contribute to sleep fragmentation. From a public health perspective, interventions to protect the sleep of populations near railway lines should therefore consider both exposure types.
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TL;DR: The European Environmental Noise Directive (END) was adopted in 2002, geared towards the assessment and management of environmental noise as discussed by the authors, and it has become increasingly recognized that environmental noise exposure in the living environment may lead to adverse health effects.
Abstract: Road traffic is a prominent source of environmental noise exposure in urbanized areas. Because of its common presence, traffic is a source of exposure that is not easy to avoid. As a consequence, it is affecting a substantial proportion of residents in their homes, and in their living environment more in general. In view of reducing the number of people affected by environmental noise exposure, the European Environmental Noise Directive (END) was adopted in 2002, geared towards the assessment and management of environmental noise. Over the last decades it has become increasingly recognised that environmental noise exposure in the living environment may lead to adverse health effects. Annoyance and sleep disturbance, mainly related to road traffic noise, are considered to be the most prominent noise effects (WHO, 2011). For these effects exposure response relationships have been established (Miedema and Oudshoorn, 2001; Miedema and Vos, 2007). During the last decades, in laboratory studies, field studies and epidemiological studies, it has been studied if and how noise exposure may lead to further adverse health effects. Evidence for a relationship between long term exposure to noise and stress related health effects, including cardiovascular disease, is increasing (Babisch et al., 2008; WHO, 2011; Van Kempen and Babisch, 2012; Basner et al., 2013; Babisch, 2014
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...During sleep people recover both physically and mentally, and there is increasing evidence that sleep benefits memory consolidation (Marshall and Born, 2007; Drosopoulos et al., 2007)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the biopsychosocial-spiritual importance of sleep and equip marriage and family therapists with information on sleep assessment, how to identify situations for referral, and how to provide psycho education on sleep hygiene.
Abstract: Despite many marriage and family therapists (MFTs) utilizing the Biopsychosocial-Spiritual (BPSS) framework in assessment and treatment, there is still a lack of education on sleep and the implications for mental, emotional, and relational health. Newer research within many fields highlights the far-reaching spillover effects of short or poor-quality sleep that can affect our clients. MFTs need to know how to assess, how to provide proper psychoeducation, how to apply this knowledge in clinical settings, and how to collaborate with other healthcare providers. As such, the purpose of this article is threefold: (a) review the biopsychosocial-spiritual importance of sleep; (b) equip MFTs with information on sleep assessment, how to identify situations for referral, and how to provide psychoeducation on sleep hygiene; and (c) review important considerations for research and practice for MFTs.
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Abstract: Social surveys of the relationship between noise exposure and the subjective reactions to it were reviewed This review indicated that remarkably similar results have been obtained across different nationalities with different measurement techniques Only a small percentage (typically less than 20%) of the variation in individual reaction is accounted for by noise exposure Analysis of potential errors in both measurement of noise and reaction suggests that elimination of errors would only slightly increase the observed correlations Variables, such as attitude to the noise source and sensitivity to noise, account for more variation in reaction than does noise exposure The weaker relationship between noise exposure and attitude than between reaction and attitude suggests that the attitude/reaction relationship is not entirely due to noise exposure causing a change in attitude itself Noise/reaction correlations based on individual data are significantly lower in studies of impulsive noise than nonimpulsive noise This may be caused, in part, by the restricted range of noise exposure studied in some socioacoustic investigations of impulsive noise However, the significantly higher correlations of attitude and reaction in impulsive noise studies suggest that attitude plays an even larger part, while noise exposure plays a lesser part in determining reaction to impulsive noise, relative to nonimpulsive noise
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TL;DR: Noise sensitivity levels did fall with recovery from depression but still remained high, suggesting an underlying high level of noise sensitivity, and was related to higher tonic skin conductance and heart rate and greater defence/startle responses during noise exposure in the laboratory.
Abstract: Noise, a prototypical environmental stressor, has clear health effects in causing hearing loss but other health effects are less evident. Noise exposure may lead to minor emotional symptoms but the evidence of elevated levels of aircraft noise leading to psychiatric hospital admissions and psychiatric disorder in the community is contradictory. Despite this there are well documented associations between noise exposure and changes in performance, sleep disturbance and emotional reactions such as annoyance. Moreover, annoyance is associated with both environmental noise level and psychological and physical symptoms, psychiatric disorder and use of health services. It seems likely that existing psychiatric disorder contributes to high levels of annoyance. However, there is also the possibility that tendency to annoyance may be a risk factor for psychiatric morbidity. Although noise level explains a significant proportion of the variance in annoyance, the other major factor, confirmed in many studies, is subjective sensitivity to noise. Noise sensitivity is also related to psychiatric disorder. The evidence for noise sensitivity being a risk factor for psychiatric disorder would be greater if it were a stable personality characteristic, and preceded psychiatric morbidity. The stability of noise sensitivity and whether it is merely secondary to psychiatric disorder or is a risk factor for psychiatric disorder as well as annoyance is examined in two studies in this monograph: a six-year follow-up of a group of highly noise sensitive and low noise sensitive women; and a longitudinal study of depressed patients and matched control subjects examining changes in noise sensitivity with recovery from depression. A further dimension of noise effects concerns the impact of noise on the autonomic nervous system. Most physiological responses to noise habituate rapidly but in some people physiological responses persist. It is not clear whether this sub-sample is also subjectively sensitive to noise and whether failure to habituate to environmental noise may also represent a biological indicator of vulnerability to psychiatric disorder. In these studies noise sensitivity was found to be moderately stable and associated with current psychiatric disorder and a disposition to negative affectivity. Noise sensitivity levels did fall with recovery from depression but still remained high, suggesting an underlying high level of noise sensitivity. Noise sensitivity was related to higher tonic skin conductance and heart rate and greater defence/startle responses during noise exposure in the laboratory. Noise sensitive people attend more to noises, discriminate more between noises, find noises more threatening and out of their control, and react to, and adapt to noises more slowly than less noise sensitive people.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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