POPULATION-BASED QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY ON HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIRCRAFT NOISE ON RESIDENTS LIVING AROUND U.S. AIRFIELDS IN THE RYUKYUS—PART I: AN ANALYSIS OF 12 SCALE SCORES

✍ Scribed by T MIYAKITA; T MATSUI; A ITO; T TOKUYAMA; K HIRAMATSU; Y OSADA; T YAMAMOTO

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 169 KB
• Volume: 250
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-460X
• DOI: 10.1006/jsvi.2001.3897

✦ Synopsis

A questionnaire survey was made of health e!ects of aircraft noise on residents living around Kadena and Futenma air"elds using the Todai Health Index. Aircraft noise exposure expressed by ¸BL ranged from under 55 to over 70 in the surveyed area. The number of valid answers was 7095, including 848 among the control group. Twelve scale scores were converted to dichotomous variables based on scale scores of the 90 percentile value or the 10 percentile value in the control group. Multiple logistic regression analysis was done taking 12 scale scores converted into the dependent variable and ¸BL , age (six levels), sex, occupation (four categories) and the interaction of age and sex as the independent variables. Signi"cant dose}response relationships were found in the scale scores for vague complaints, respiratory, digestive, mental instability, depression and nervousness. The results suggest that the residents living around Kadena and Futenma air"elds may su!er both physical and mental e!ects as a result of exposure to military aircraft noise and that such responses increase with the level of noise exposure (¸B L