The development of Weinstein's noise sensitivity scale

Noise and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 33, 2006, Pages 154-160

  Kishikawa, H ^a   Matsui, T ^a   Uchiyama, I ^a   Miyakawa, M ^b   Hiramatsu, K ^a   Stansfeld, S A ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KIBI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annoyance; Noise sensitivity; Questionnaire survey; Response bias; Weinstein's noise sensitivity scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NOISE MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEINSTEIN NOISE SENSITIVITY SCALE;

EID: 35348855002     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.34703     Document Type: Article

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