Psychosocial effects of community noise: Cross sectional study of school children in urban center of Skopje, Macedonia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 473-476

  Ristovska, Gordana ^a,b   Gjorgjev, Dragan ^a   Jordanova, Nada Pop ^a  

^a SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY OF SKOPJE   (Macedonia)

^b Republic Institute for Health Protection   (Macedonia)

Author keywords

Child development; Noise, transportation; Psychological tests; Social class

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE AREA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER QUESTIONNAIRE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY NOISE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANXIETY SCALE; HOME; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MARKET; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPPOSING BEHAVIOR; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBURBAN AREA; TEACHER; TRAFFIC NOISE; URBAN AREA;

CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC); MALE; NOISE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 4444332695     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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