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Road traffic noise and children's inattention

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BACKGROUND: An increasing number of children are exposed to road
                traffic noise levels that may lead to adverse effects on health
                and daily functioning. Childhood is a period of intense growth
                and brain maturation, and children may therefore be especially
                vulnerable to road traffic noise. The objective of the present
                study was to examine whether road traffic noise was associated
                with reported inattention symptoms in children, and whether this
                association was mediated by sleep duration. METHODS: This study
                was based on the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study
                conducted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Parental
                reports of children's inattention at age 8 were linked to
                modelled levels of residential road traffic noise. We
                investigated the association between inattention and noise
                exposure during pregnancy (n = 1934), noise exposure averaged
                over 5 years (age 3 to 8 years; n = 1384) and noise exposure at
                age 8 years (n = 1384), using fractional logit response models.
                The participants were children from Oslo, Norway. RESULTS: An
                association with inattention at age 8 years was found for road
                traffic noise exposure at age 8 years (coef = .0083, CI =
                [.0012, .0154]; 1.2% point increase in inattention score per 10
                dB increase in noise level), road traffic noise exposure average
                for the last 5 years (coef = .0090, CI = [.0016, .0164]; 1.3%
                point increase/10 dB), and for pregnancy road traffic noise
                exposure for boys (coef = .0091, CI = [.0010, .0171]), but not
                girls (coef = -.0021, CI = [-.0094, .0053]). Criteria for doing
                mediation analyses were not fulfilled. CONCLUSION: Results
                indicate that road traffic noise has a negative impact on
                children's inattention. We found no mediation by sleep duration.

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Reproducció del document publicat a:
                http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0337-y

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Environmental Health, 2017, vol. 16, num. 127

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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Road traffic noise and children's inattention