Clark, C; Paunovic, K
(2018)
WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A Systematic Review on Environmental Noise and Cognition.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15 (2).
p. 285.
ISSN 1660-4601
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15020285
SGUL Authors: Clark, Charlotte Elizabeth Sarah
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Abstract
This systematic review assesses the quality of the evidence across individual studies on the effect of environmental noise (road traffic, aircraft, and train and railway noise) on cognition. Quantitative non-experimental studies of the association between environmental noise exposure on child and adult cognitive performance published up to June 2015 were reviewed: no limit was placed on the start date for the search. A total of 34 papers were identified, all of which were of child populations. 82% of the papers were of cross-sectional design, with fewer studies of longitudinal or intervention design. A range of cognitive outcomes were examined. The quality of the evidence across the studies for each individual noise source and cognitive outcome was assessed using an adaptation of GRADE methodology. This review found, given the predominance of cross-sectional studies, that the quality of the evidence across studies ranged from being of moderate quality for an effect for some outcomes, e.g., aircraft noise effects on reading comprehension and on long-term memory, to no effect for other outcomes such as attention and executive function and for some noise sources such as road traffic noise and railway noise. The GRADE evaluation of low quality evidence across studies for some cognitive domains and for some noise sources does not necessarily mean that there are no effects: rather, that more robust and a greater number of studies are required.
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Additional Information: | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | ||||||
Keywords: | MD Multidisciplinary, Toxicology | ||||||
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: | Academic Structure > Population Health Research Institute (INPH) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | ||||||
ISSN: | 1660-4601 | ||||||
Language: | en | ||||||
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Publisher License: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/113961 | ||||||
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15020285 |
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