Impact of overnight traffic noise on sleep quality, sleepiness, and vigilant attention in long-haul truck drivers: Results of a pilot study
| Autor: | Tatjana Crönlein, Rainer Rupprecht, Göran Hajak, Stefanie Maier, Siegfried Rothe, Roland Popp, Thomas C. Wetter, Jürgen Zulley |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Automobile Driving media_common.quotation_subject Poison control Pilot Projects Fitness to drive Polysomnography Audiology sleepiness law.invention Speech and Hearing lcsh:RC963-969 Randomized controlled trial polysomnography law Occupational Exposure vigilance Injury prevention Medicine Humans Attention media_common Cross-Over Studies medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Traffic noise Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health sleep quality Middle Aged lcsh:Otorhinolaryngology Crossover study lcsh:RF1-547 Motor Vehicles Otorhinolaryngology Noise Transportation Noise Occupational lcsh:Industrial medicine. Industrial hygiene Original Article business Arousal Sleep human activities Vigilance (psychology) |
| Zdroj: | Noise and Health, Vol 17, Iss 79, Pp 387-393 (2015) Noise & Health |
| ISSN: | 1998-4030 1463-1741 |
| Popis: | This study aimed to evaluate the impact of traffic noise along the motorway on sleep quality, sleepiness, and vigilant attention in long-haul truck drivers. This was a randomized, crossover, within-subject controlled study. Healthy long-haul truck drivers spent 6 consecutive nights in a real truck berth with full sleep laboratory equipment. During 3 nights, subjects were exposed to replayed traffic noise alongside motorways, whereas the other 3 nights were without traffic noise. Polysomnography was recorded during the nights and numerous sleepiness tests and vigilance examinations were performed during the following standardized working day. Outcome measures were compared between noisy and silent nights using the paired Wilcoxon test. Ten healthy long-haul truck drivers with a mean age of 36.3 ± 7.3 years completed the study as planned. On noisy nights, subjects had greater latencies to the rapid eye movement (REM) phase (90 ± 32 min vs 69 ± 16 min, P = 0.074) and higher percentages of sleep stage 1 (13.7 ± 5.5% vs 11.2 ± 4.4%; P = 0.059). Subjects also rated their sleep quality as having been better during nights without noise (28.1 ± 3.7 vs 30.3 ± 6.2, P = 0.092). The impact of these differences on daytime sleepiness and vigilance was rather low; however, mean Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS) scores measured during the course of the following day were higher on six out of eight occasions after noisy nights. The effects of overnight traffic noise on sleep quality are detectable but unlikely to have any major impact on the vigilant attention and driving performance of long haul-truck drivers with low nocturnal noise sensitivity. This might not be true for subgroups prone to sleeping disorders. |
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