Home as a place of noise control for the elderly? A cross-sectional study on potential mediating effects and associations between road traffic noise exposure, access to a quiet side, dwelling-related green and noise annoyance

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Riedel, Natalie ^a,b   Köckler, Heike ^c   Scheiner, Joachim ^d   van Kamp, Irene ^e   Erbel, Raimund ^f   Loerbroks, Adrian ^b   Claßen, Thomas ^g   Bolte, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Hochschule für Gesundheit Bochum University of Applied Science   (Germany)

^d TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^g Section Health Assessments and Forecasting   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dwelling related green; Heinz nixdorf recall study; Mediation analysis; Noise annoyance; Perceived noise control; Quiet side; Road traffic noise exposure

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; ROAD TRAFFIC; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

AGED; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; RESIDENT; TRAFFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOUSING; IRRITABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; TRAFFIC NOISE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; IRRITABLE MOOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PERCEPTION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85047372428     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15051036     Document Type: Article

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