Evaluation of annoyance from the wind turbine noise: a pilot study.
Int J Occup Med Environ Health
; 27(3): 364-88, 2014 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
The overall aim of this study was to evaluate the perception of and annoyance due to the noise from wind turbines in populated areas of Poland. MATERIAL ANDMETHODS:
The study group comprised 156 subjects. All subjects were asked to fill in a questionnaire developed to enable evaluation of their living conditions, including prevalence of annoyance due to the noise from wind turbines and the self-assessment of physical health and well-being. In addition, current mental health status of the respondents was assessed using Goldberg General Health Questionnaire GHQ-12. For areas where the respondents lived, A-weighted sound pressure levels (SPLs) were calculated as the sum of the contributions from the wind power plants in the specific area.RESULTS:
It has been shown that the wind turbine noise at the calculated A-weighted SPL of 30-48 dB was noticed outdoors by 60.3% of the respondents. This noise was perceived as annoying outdoors by 33.3% of the respondents, while indoors by 20.5% of them. The odds ratio of being annoyed outdoors by the wind turbine noise increased along with increasing SPLs (OR = 2.1; 95% CI 1.22-3.62). The subjects' attitude to wind turbines in general and sensitivity to landscape littering was found to have significant impact on the perceived annoyance. About 63% of variance in outdoors annoyance assessment might be explained by the noise level, general attitude to wind turbines and sensitivity to landscape littering.CONCLUSIONS:
Before firm conclusions can be drawn further studies are needed, including a larger number of respondents with different living environments (i.e., dissimilar terrain, different urbanization and road traffic intensity).
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Viento
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Fuentes Generadoras de Energía
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Exposición a Riesgos Ambientales
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Ruido
Tipo de estudio:
Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Humans
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Int J Occup Med Environ Health
Asunto de la revista:
MEDICINA OCUPACIONAL
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SAUDE AMBIENTAL
Año:
2014
Tipo del documento:
Article