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Sleep disturbance caused by meaningful sounds and the effect of background noise

22 Oct 2004-Journal of Sound and Vibration (Academic Press)-Vol. 277, Iss: 3, pp 445-452
TL;DR: In this paper, a new procedure called "noise interrupted method" has been developed to study noise-induced sleep disturbance, where the sounds are reproduced with a mini-disk player which has an automatic reverse function.
About: This article is published in Journal of Sound and Vibration.The article was published on 2004-10-22. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sleep disorder & Disturbance (geology).
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TL;DR: The equivalent noise level seems to be a suitable predictor for subjectively evaluated sleep quality but not for physiological sleep disturbances, where physiological sleep parameters were most severely affected by rail noise.

180 citations


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  • ...The brain is able to perceive, to analyse and to respond adequately to acoustic stimuli even during sleep and individuals have been shown to react more to meaningful than to neutral stimuli [7,8]....

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  • ...Type of traffic noise The hypothesis adopted for this study bases firstly on the replicated observation that man responds more likely to meaningful than to neutral noises even during sleep [7,8] and secondly on a meta-analysis according to which aircraft noise annoys most and rail noise the least [2,3]....

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TL;DR: The present study implies that the bedside PV could be used as a potential ventilation principle for sleeping people.

59 citations


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  • ...Although in this experiment the noise level did not exceed 35 dB, a level that had no effect on sleep quality [48], and there was only one elderly who complained about noise, PV terminals with lower noise should be developed, since insomnia is more prevalent in the elderly [49] and probably they are more vulnerable to noise....

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TL;DR: This article reviews the literature about the effects of specific non-traffic-related ambient noise sources on sleep that appeared in the last two decades and indicates that ambient noise has some effect on human sleep.
Abstract: This article reviews the literature about the effects of specific non-traffic-related ambient noise sources on sleep that appeared in the last two decades. Although everybody is faced with noise of non-traffic and non-industry origin (e.g. sounds made by neighbors, talk, laughter, music, slamming doors, structural equipment, ventilation, heat pumps, noise from animals, barking dogs, outdoor events etc.), little scientific knowledge exists about its effects on sleep. The findings of the present extensive literature search and review are as follows: Only a small number of surveys, laboratory and field studies about mainly neighborhood, leisure and animal noise have been carried out. Most of them indicate that ambient noise has some effect on human sleep. However, a quantitative meta-analysis and comparison is not possible due to the small number of studies available and at times large differences in quality.

49 citations


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  • ...In a third Japanese study, the same methods were applied again.[29] The study contained 20 subjects aged between 20 and 42 years....

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  • ...Namba et al.[29] Field study with presented sounds Japan Music, air conditioning noise Database: Journal article Noise presentation; exposure-effect relationship Time when switching off the minidisk player, questionnaire [Downloaded free from http://www....

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  • ...Meaningful sounds from leisure and neighbor noise showed a tendency to disturb sleep according to the national inventory studies from the Netherlands, the LARES study and the different Japanese studies of Kuwano et al. and Namba et al.[8,22,27-29] The national inventory study 1998 from the Netherlands detected also small sleep disturbances due to church bell and mosque noise and noise from recycling of bottles....

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  • ...Noise & Health, July-August 2011, Volume 13 308 Meaningful sounds such as those emanating from leisure and neighbor noise seem in most cases to lead to sleep disturbance,[3,7,8,18-20,22,23,27-29] an exception being the study of Sasazawa et al....

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  • ...and Namba et al.[8,22,27-29] The national inventory study 1998 from the Netherlands detected also small sleep disturbances due to church bell and mosque noise and noise from recycling of bottles....

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TL;DR: In this paper, a multiple Helmholtz resonator array (MHA) is proposed to deal with low-frequency, broadband and hybrid noise in a ventilation ductwork system, in which several tuned HRs mounted on the same cross-sectional area of the duct is considered as a transverse HR array.

26 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of different noise combinations on sleep were assessed in two contexts, with a single noise source and with combined noise sources, and the results showed that the combined noises sources including construction noise decreased the number of participants who fell asleep within an hour and increased the number that were awakened prematurely.

20 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effort to fall asleep was used as an index of sleep and the effect of various physical properties of sounds was examined, where subjects were asked to try to sleep listening to sounds presented with a mini-disk and they were allowed to switch off the sound after 1 h if they could not sleep.

15 citations

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