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Annoyance

About: Annoyance is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2015 publications have been published within this topic receiving 38300 citations. The topic is also known as: annoy.


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TL;DR: Noise pollution in hospitals can cause psychological effects on staff and be associated with annoyance, according to the annoyance index, which indicated that there was a significant relationship between sleep disturbance and noise annoyance.
Abstract: Noise is a common and widespread problem in workplaces. Noise can lead to hearing loss, hypertension, nervous and mental disorders, annoyance and stress, sleep disturbance, negative impact on productivity and working capacity. The undesirable effects of noise on an individual or group are called annoyance. Some personal and social characteristics can affect on annoyance. This study was aimed to assess the level of noise pollution in some hospitals in Qom, central Province of Iran and study its effects on nurses’ psychological and physiological responses. The sound levels were measured using a sound level meter and the noise annoyance was assessed through a valid and reliable questionnaire. The noise annoyance index was finally defined based on variables measured by the questionnaire and its correlation with equivalent sound level at different frequencies. Besides, the major noise sources in different wards of the hospitals, the relationship between noise annoyance and demographic and personal characteristics and the effects of noise on sleep disturbance were analyzed. Based on results the average noise level in some hospitals was higher than the national standard in Iran (45 dB (A)). Moreover, in some wards, nurses have experienced different ranges of noise annoyance with obvious signs of it. The finding also indicated that there was a significant relationship between sleep disturbance and noise annoyance ( p <0.001). Nurses believed that the noise of patients’ families was the most annoying sound source. According to the annoyance index, noise pollution in hospitals can cause psychological effects on staff and be associated with annoyance.

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified census tract-level socioeconomic disparities in noise complaints since 2010 and examined how such disparities changed during the COVID-19 pandemic by using linear mixed-effects models.

8 citations

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TL;DR: It was shown that both the frequency with which odor was noticed and the frequency and intensity with which respondents to an interview expressed annoyance corresponded to the presumptive exposure gradient across three residential areas.

8 citations

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TL;DR: A relationship between aircraft noise annoyance and perceived overall recreational quality of the areas was found.
Abstract: The literature indicates that sound and visual stimuli interact in the impression of landscapes. This paper examines the relationship between annoyance with sound from aircraft and annoyance with other area problems (e.g., careless bicycle riding, crowding, etc.), and how changes in noise exposure influence the perceived overall recreational quality of outdoor recreational areas. A panel study (telephone interviews) conducted before and after the relocation of Norway’s main airport in 1998 examined effects of decreased or increased noise exposure in nearby recreational areas (n = 591/455). Sound from aircraft annoyed the largest proportion of recreationists, except near the old airport after the change. The decrease in annoyance with sound from aircraft was accompanied by significant decreases in annoyance with most of the other area problems. Near the new airport annoyance with most factors beside sound from aircraft increased slightly, but not significantly. A relationship between aircraft noise annoyance and perceived overall recreational quality of the areas was found.

8 citations

01 Jan 1975
TL;DR: In this article, the results of a community noise survey in which 1500 residents living in 11 communities near Kennedy Airport in New York were interviewed with regard to their night, day, and evening annoyance responses to aircraft noise were presented.
Abstract: The paper presents the results of a community noise survey in which 1500 residents living in 11 communities near Kennedy Airport in New York were interviewed with regard to their night, day, and evening annoyance responses to aircraft noise. It was found that, while nighttime operations are only 35% of evening a 48% of daytime activity, the reported mean annoyance during the night is 71% of evening and 90% of the daytime reported annoyance. This suggests that each nighttime flight has the equivalent annoyance effect of 2 day on evening flights. This is compared with the ENR, NEF and Ldn indexes that assume that 10 daytime flights are the equivalent of one nighttime flyover.

8 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023187
2022275
202166
202055
201968
201890