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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: In this article, the authors analyze the socio-environmental conflict between Barcelona airport and the community of Gava Mar. This case shows that the lack of trust between parties, the impossibility of predicting noise exposure, the absence of opportunities for civil society to speak and the difficulty of accessing relevant information foster annoyance and mobilization in the communities that live around the airport.
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TL;DR: Noise sensitivity was a consistent predictor of depressive symptoms and psychological distress at phases 3, 5 and 7 and high noise sensitivity scores at baseline predicted GHQ caseness at phase 3 adjusting for age, sex, employment grade, self-rated health and GHQ casing at baseline (OR=1.56 95% CI 1.29-1.88).
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the influence of maximum noise levels and the number of noise events on the annoyance reaction and found that the equal energy related index did not describe the reaction between noise and annoyance in an exposed population in an optimal manner.
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TL;DR: High noise annoyance consistently correlated with frequent interference of activities and reducing noise at night (10 pm-7 am) was more important than during the rest of the day.
Abstract: This study evaluated road traffic noise annoyance in Canada in relation to activity interference, subject concerns about noise and self-reported distance to a major road. Random digit dialing was employed to survey a representative sample of 2565 Canadians 15years of age and older. Respondents highly annoyed by traffic noise were significantly more likely to perceive annoyance to negatively impact health, live closer to a heavily traveled road and report that traffic noise often interfered with daily activities. Sex, age, education level, community size and province had statistically significant associations with traffic noise annoyance. High noise annoyance consistently correlated with frequent interference of activities. Reducing noise at night (10pm–7am) was more important than during the rest of the day.
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TL;DR: It can be concluded that the background noise level is one of the important factors on the estimation of community annoyance from aircraft noise exposure.
Abstract: A study of community annoyance caused by exposures to civil aircraft noise was carried out in 20 sites around Gimpo and Gimhae international airports to investigate the effect of background noise in terms of dose-effect relationships between aircraft noise levels and annoyance responses under real conditions Aircraft noise levels were mainly measured using airport noise monitoring systems, B&K type 3597 Social surveys were administered to people living within 100 m of noise measurement sites The question relating to the annoyance of aircraft noise was answered on an 11-point numerical scale The randomly selected respondents, who were aged between 18 and 70 years, completed the questionnaire independently In total, 753 respondents participated in social surveys The result shows that annoyance responses in low background noise regions are much higher than those in high background noise regions, even though aircraft noise levels are the same It can be concluded that the background noise level is one of the important factors on the estimation of community annoyance from aircraft noise exposure
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