Noise-Induced Sleep Disturbance in Residential Settings.

Abstract

The present study observed the effects of nighttime noise exposure on the in-home sleep of residents of neighborhoods near one military airbase and one civil airport, and in several suburban households with negligible nighttime aircraft noise exposure. The basic goal was to collect data to aid construction of a readily interpretable and defensible dosage-response relationship summarizing noise-induced awakening. Test participants were solicited among residents of a neighborhood near Castle Air Force Base (in Merced, CA) which had been exposed for many years to large numbers of high noise level nighttime aircraft operations. Test participants near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) were solicited from a neighborhood exposed to aircraft operations of lower noise level. Test participants in neighborhoods which served as control sites were not exposed to aircraft noise at night, but were exposed to high levels of road traffic noise.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA296195

Entities

People

  • Barbara Tabachnick
  • Karl Pearsons
  • Laura Silvati
  • Richard Howe
  • Sanford Fidell

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Environment
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Regression Analysis
  • Schematic Diagrams
  • Sound Pressure
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Surveys

Readers

  • Auditory Neuroscience/Auditory Physiology.
  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Proposed Air Force Base Actions.