Acoustic regulations for hospital bedrooms – Comparison between selected countries in Europe

Birgit Rasmussen*, Teresa Carrascal García, Simone Secchi

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Abstract

Neighbour and traffic noise annoyance questions have been included in the Danish Health and Morbidity Surveys since year 2000. Noise annoyance was assessed by asking the respondents about noise annoyance from neighbours and traffic, respectively, in their home during the past two weeks. For people in multi-storey housing, neighbour noise annoyance was significantly higher than annoyance from traffic. The latest survey was performed in 2017; 3893 respondents living in multi-storey houses completed the self-administered questionnaire, 36% reported being very/slightly bothered by neighbour noise and 22% by traffic noise. Additional studies were carried out aiming at analyzing associations between neighbour noise annoyance and physical/mental health symptoms such as pain in various body parts, headache, fatigue, depression and anxiety and furthermore with getting enough sleep to feel rested. Noise annoyance from neighbours was strongly associated with all these health/sleep outcomes. Similar associations were observed for traffic noise. Although causality cannot be established in this cross-sectional study, it is concluded that neighbour noise annoyance is strongly associated with various physical/mental health symptoms and with not getting enough sleep to feel rested. The results highlight that health effects of neighbour noise might be as serious as for traffic noise and should have more attention.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of 2021 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering : INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings
RedaktørerTyler Dare, Stuart Bolton, Patricia Davies, Yutong Xue, Gordon Ebbitt
Antal sider8
ForlagInstitute of Noise Control Engineering
Publikationsdatoaug. 2021
Sider2793-2800
Artikelnummer#2230
ISBN (Elektronisk)9781732598652
DOI
StatusUdgivet - aug. 2021
Begivenhed50th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering - Virtual Conference, Washington D.C, USA
Varighed: 1 aug. 20215 aug. 2021
Konferencens nummer: 50
https://internoise2021.org/

Konference

Konference50th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering
Nummer50
LokationVirtual Conference
Land/OmrådeUSA
ByWashington D.C
Periode01/08/202105/08/2021
Internetadresse
NavnNoise-Con Proceedings
Vol/bind21 (Print)
ISSN0736-2935

Emneord

  • Building regulations
  • Hospitals
  • Bedrooms
  • Acoustic perforamnce
  • Reverberation time
  • Airborne sound insulation
  • Impact sound insulation
  • Facade sound insulation
  • Service equipment noise
  • Europe

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