Associations between noise sensitivity and sleep, subjectively evaluated sleep quality, annoyance, and performance after exposure to nocturnal traffic noise

Noise and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 34, 2007, Pages 1-7

  Marks, A ^a   Griefahn, B ^a,b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Noise sensitivity; Performance; Polysomnogram; Subjective sleep quality; Traffic noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLEEP; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP TIME; TRAFFIC NOISE; GERMANY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP;

EID: 38449113024     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: 19984030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.34698     Document Type: Article

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