Road traffic noise and children’s inattention

Environmental Health

Research

Stephen Stansfeld¹  Bente Oftedal²  Gunn Marit Aasvang²  Norun Hjertager Krog²  Kjell Vegard Weyde³  Simon Øverland⁴  Per Magnus⁵  Martine Vrijheid⁶  Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen⁷  Montserrat de Castro Pascual⁷ 

[1] Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK;Department of Air Pollution and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway;Department of Air Pollution and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway;Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;Pb. 4404 Nydalen, 0403, Oslo, Norway;Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway;Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway;Domain of Health Data and Digitalization, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway;Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain;CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain;ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain;Experimental and Health Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, 08003, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain;CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain;

关键词: Road traffic noise;    Inattention;    Children;    Norwegian mother and child cohort study;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12940-017-0337-y

 received in 2017-06-06, accepted in 2017-11-03,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundAn increasing number of children are exposed to road traffic noise levels that may lead to adverse effects on health and daily functioning. Childhood is a period of intense growth and brain maturation, and children may therefore be especially vulnerable to road traffic noise. The objective of the present study was to examine whether road traffic noise was associated with reported inattention symptoms in children, and whether this association was mediated by sleep duration.MethodsThis study was based on the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study conducted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Parental reports of children’s inattention at age 8 were linked to modelled levels of residential road traffic noise. We investigated the association between inattention and noise exposure during pregnancy (n = 1934), noise exposure averaged over 5 years (age 3 to 8 years; n = 1384) and noise exposure at age 8 years (n = 1384), using fractional logit response models. The participants were children from Oslo, Norway.ResultsAn association with inattention at age 8 years was found for road traffic noise exposure at age 8 years (coef = .0083, CI = [.0012, .0154]; 1.2% point increase in inattention score per 10 dB increase in noise level), road traffic noise exposure average for the last 5 years (coef = .0090, CI = [.0016, .0164]; 1.3% point increase/10 dB), and for pregnancy road traffic noise exposure for boys (coef = .0091, CI = [.0010, .0171]), but not girls (coef = −.0021, CI = [−.0094, .0053]). Criteria for doing mediation analyses were not fulfilled.ConclusionResults indicate that road traffic noise has a negative impact on children’s inattention. We found no mediation by sleep duration.

【 授权许可】

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