Impact of wind turbine sound on annoyance, self-reported sleep disturbance and psychological distress

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 425, Issue , 2012, Pages 42-51

  Bakker, R H ^a   Pedersen, E ^b   van den Berg, G P ^c   Stewart, R E ^a   Lok, W ^a   Bouma, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Annoyance; Psychological distress; Sleep disturbance; Structural equation modeling; Wind turbine sound

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; AIRCRAFT NOISE; ANNOYANCE; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS; NETHERLANDS; NOISE ANNOYANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; ROAD TRAFFIC; SLEEP DISTURBANCES; SOUND EXPOSURE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; WIND TURBINE NOISE;

INDUSTRIAL RAILROADS; NOISE POLLUTION; SLEEP RESEARCH; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; NEIGHBORHOOD; NOISE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP; WIND TURBINE;

ADULT; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NOISE POLLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SEX RATIO; SLEEP DISORDER; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NOISE; POWER PLANTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SLEEP DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WIND;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84860011051     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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