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Noise and Sleep: 2nd Edition

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 3021

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Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
Interests: the effects of environmental stressors (including noise and vibration) on sleep; the effects of sleep fragmentation on health, performance and work ability and the health consequences of environmental noise exposure

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Department of Air Pollution and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Pb 4404 Nydalen, 0403 Oslo, Norway
Interests: noise; sleep; sleep disturbances; insomnia; environmental exposures, environmental health; blue areas; green areas; neurodevelopment; epidemiology; registry research

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health welcomes submissions for a Special Issue. This Special Issue is the second with a focus on environmental noise and sleep (first edition available here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/noise_sleep).

The WHO estimates that the burden of disease from transportation noise is largely determined by noise-induced sleep disturbance. In Western Europe, they estimate that the health impact of noise-induced sleep disturbance from transportation noise corresponds to the annual loss of over 900,000 healthy life years. Furthermore, estimates from the European Environment Agency have shown that around 6.5 million people suffer from chronic high sleep disturbance due to long-term exposure to environmental noise. With the increasing rate of urbanization and traffic volumes, more people could potentially become exposed to harmful noise levels in the years to come. From a public health perspective, sleep disturbance per se is a relevant health outcome, but noise-induced sleep disturbances are also suspected to be on the causal pathway to cardiometabolic and cognitive disorders, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia. To determine the role of sleep disturbances as a mediator in the relationship between noise and long-term health effects, more research is needed, especially among previously under-represented populations and age groups.

We invite prospective authors to present their latest work in these important research domains in this Special Issue. The Special Issue is open to manuscripts in the area of noise-induced sleep disturbances, measured physiologically or via self-report, in the laboratory or in the field, and from all noise sources. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, except in the form of congress papers. All manuscripts will be thoroughly peer-reviewed.

Dr. Michael Smith
Dr. Jorunn Evandt
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • noise-induced sleep disturbance
  • transportation noise
  • aircraft noise
  • road noise
  • railway noise
  • hospital noise
  • wind turbine noise
  • chronic nocturnal noise exposure and health
  • exposure-response relationships
  • novel indicators of effects of noise on sleep
  • standardisation of sleep disturbance measures
  • night noise protection concepts
  • sound as a sleep aid
  • insomnia
  • sleep medication use

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Study Protocol
Effects of Aircraft Noise on Sleep: Federal Aviation Administration National Sleep Study Protocol
by Mathias Basner, Ian Barnett, Michele Carlin, Grace H. Choi, Joseph J. Czech, Adrian J. Ecker, Yoni Gilad, Thomas Godwin, Eric Jodts, Christopher W. Jones, Marc Kaizi-Lutu, Jennifer Kali, Jean D. Opsomer, Sierra Park-Chavar, Michael G. Smith, Victoria Schneller, Nianfu Song and Pamela A. Shaw
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(21), 7024; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20217024 - 6 Nov 2023
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Aircraft noise can disrupt sleep and impair recuperation. The last U.S. investigation into the effects of aircraft noise on sleep dates back more than 20 years. Since then, traffic patterns and the noise levels produced by single aircraft have changed substantially. It is [...] Read more.
Aircraft noise can disrupt sleep and impair recuperation. The last U.S. investigation into the effects of aircraft noise on sleep dates back more than 20 years. Since then, traffic patterns and the noise levels produced by single aircraft have changed substantially. It is therefore important to acquire current data on sleep disturbance relative to varying degrees of aircraft noise exposure in the U.S. that can be used to check and potentially update the existing noise policy. This manuscript describes the design, procedures, and analytical approaches of the FAA’s National Sleep Study. Seventy-seven U.S. airports with relevant nighttime air traffic from 39 states are included in the sampling frame. Based on simulation-based power calculations, the field study aims to recruit 400 participants from four noise strata and record an electrocardiogram (ECG), body movement, and sound pressure levels in the bedroom for five consecutive nights. The primary outcome of the study is an exposure–response function between the instantaneous, maximum A-weighted sound pressure levels (dBA) of individual aircraft measured in the bedroom and awakening probability inferred from changes in heart rate and body movement. Self-reported sleep disturbance due to aircraft noise is the secondary outcome that will be associated with long-term average noise exposure metrics such as the Day–Night Average Sound Level (DNL) and the Nighttime Equivalent Sound Level (Lnight). The effect of aircraft noise on several other physiological and self-report outcomes will also be investigated. This study will provide key insights into the effects of aircraft noise on objectively and subjectively assessed sleep disturbance. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Noise and Sleep: 2nd Edition)
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