• Corpus ID: 204797900

Effects of aircraft noise and living environment on children ́ s well-being and health

@inproceedings{Spilski2019EffectsOA,
  title={Effects of aircraft noise and living environment on children ́ s well-being and health},
  author={Jan Spilski and Martin Rumberg and Martin W. Berchthold and Kirstin Bergstr{\"o}m and Ulrich and M{\"o}hler and Thomas Lachmann and Maria Klatte},
  year={2019}
}

• J. Spilski, M. Rumberg, +5 authors M. Klatte
• Published 2019
• Psychology

There are few and inconsistent results suggesting that chronic exposure to aircraft noise is associated with poorer quality of life or health in children. Therefore, a recent WHO review pointed out that the current evidence is insufficient. Previous publications mainly analyzed the isolated relationships between single stressors (e.g., aircraft noise, pollution) and health in children. A combined consideration of environmental stressors and residential environment factors, such as degree of urbanization, access to green/open space urbanity, and other urban planning data did not occur. In the NORAH study, health variables, noise exposure measures, and a variety of potential moderating variables (residential environments factors) were assessed from second-graders who live in the vicinity of the Frankfurt/Main airport, Germany. We present a theoretically motivated secondary analysis (stress-diathesis hypothesis) of the NORAH data set. Post hoc, we linked this data with spatial and urban planning data, to model the impact of aircraft noise and children ́s real life circumstances. We calculated moderated and mediated regression models and found empirical evidence for mediation effects in the relationship between aircraft noise exposure, stress response (annoyance) and well-being, moderation effects for health as well as direct effects of the living environment.