TY - JOUR
PY - 2020//
TI - Nighttime transportation noise annoyance in Germany: personal and regional differences in the German National Cohort Study
JO - Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz
A1 - Wolf, Kathrin
A1 - Kraus, Ute
A1 - Dzolan, Mihovil
A1 - Bolte, Gabriele
A1 - Lakes, Tobia
A1 - Schikowski, Tamara
A1 - Greiser, Karin Halina
A1 - Kuß, Oliver
A1 - Ahrens, Wolfgang
A1 - Bamberg, Fabian
A1 - Becher, Heiko
A1 - Berger, Klaus
A1 - Brenner, Hermann
A1 - Castell, Stefanie
A1 - Damms-Machado, Antje
A1 - Fischer, Beate
A1 - Franzke, Claus-Werner
A1 - Gastell, Sylvia
A1 - Günther, Kathrin
A1 - Holleczek, Bernd
A1 - Jaeschke, Lina
A1 - Kaaks, Rudolf
A1 - Keil, Thomas
A1 - Kemmling, Yvonne
A1 - Krist, Lilian
A1 - Legath, Nicole
A1 - Leitzmann, Michael
A1 - Lieb, Wolfgang
A1 - Loeffler, Markus
A1 - Meinke-Franze, Claudia
A1 - Michels, Karin B.
A1 - Mikolajczyk, Rafael
A1 - Moebus, Susanne
A1 - Mueller, Ulrich
A1 - Obi, Nadia
A1 - Pischon, Tobias
A1 - Rathmann, Wolfgang
A1 - Schipf, Sabine
A1 - Schmidt, Börge
A1 - Schulze, Matthias
A1 - Thiele, Inke
A1 - Thierry, Sigrid
A1 - Waniek, Sabina
A1 - Wigmann, Claudia
A1 - Wirkner, Kerstin
A1 - Zschocke, Johannes
A1 - Peters, Annette
A1 - Schneider, Alexandra
SP - ePub
EP - ePub
VL - ePub
IS - ePub
N2 - BACKGROUND: Noise annoyance is associated with adverse health-related conditions and reduced wellbeing. Thereby, subjective noise annoyance depends on the objective noise exposure and is modified by personal and regional factors.
OBJECTIVE: How many participants of the German National Cohort Study (GNC; NAKO Gesundheitsstudie) were annoyed by transportation noise during nighttime and what factors were associated with noise annoyance? MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional analysis included 86,080 participants from 18 study centers, examined from 2014 to 2017. We used multinomial logistic regression to investigate associations of personal and regional factors to noise annoyance (slightly/moderately or strongly/extremely annoyed vs. not annoyed) mutually adjusting for all factors in the model.
RESULTS: Two thirds of participants were not annoyed by transportation noise during nighttime and one in ten reported strong/extreme annoyance with highest percentages for the study centers Berlin-Mitte and Leipzig. The strongest associations were seen for factors related to the individual housing situation like the bedroom being positioned towards a major road (OR of being slightly/moderately annoyed: 4.26 [95% CI: 4.01;4.52]; OR of being strongly/extremely annoyed: 13.36 [95% CI: 12.47;14.32]) compared to a garden/inner courtyard. Participants aged 40-60 years and those in low- and medium-income groups reported greater noise annoyance compared to younger or older ones and those in the high-income group.
CONCLUSION: In this study from Germany, transportation noise annoyance during nighttime varied by personal and regional factors.
Language: de
LA - de SN - 1436-9990 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00103-020-03094-y ID - ref1 ER -