Community surveys have found that high percentages of people reported ‘headaches’, ‘restless nights’, and ‘being tense and edgy’ in high-noise areas.

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Mental ill-health also increases annoyance. 

Noise and psychiatric disorder

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Noise exposure and psychological symptoms

- Early studies found associations between the level of aircraft noise and psychiatric hospital admission rates both in London and Los Angeles, but this has not been convincingly confirmed by more recent studies.

- Environmental noise seems to be linked to psychological symptoms but not to clinical psychiatric disorder. However, there may be a link to psychiatric disorder at much higher noise levels.

Noise and common mental disorder

- The most widespread and well documented subjective response to noise is annoyance, which may include fear and mild anger, related to a belief that one is being avoidably harmed.

- In both traffic and aircraft noise studies, noise levels have been found to be associated with annoyance in a dose–response relationship.

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