J Korean Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry.  2007 Oct;18(2):145-153.

Chronic Aircraft Noise Exposure and Sustained Attention, Continuous Performance and Cognition in Children

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea. paperose@dku.edu.
  • 2Department of Occupational Medicine, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea.
  • 3Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
  • 4Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea..

Abstract


OBJECTIVES
This study was focused on the influence of chronic aircraft noise exposure on children's continuous performance, intelligence and reading skill.
METHODS
We enrolled 586 children in 4-6th grade of 7 primary schools near air base in Korea. Continuous performance was measured using the computerized ADS program. We analyzed 477-512 children on the visual continuous performance test, auditory continuous performance test, intelligence test, and reading and the vocabulary test. Intelligence was measured using vocabulary, digit span, block design, and digit symbol tests of K-WISC-III.
RESULTS
The commission error and variability deviation of auditory continuous performance test and reading test were significantly higher among children in schools with the helicopter noise and the fighting plane noise compared to children in the low noised schools.
CONCLUSION
There was a possibility that chronic aircraft noise exposure was associated with impairment of the school performance. The result of our study also shows chronic aircraft noise was associated with reading ability.

Keyword

Chronic Aircraft Noise; Continuous Performance; Cognitive Function; Reading; Vocabulary; Children

MeSH Terms

Aircraft*
Child*
Cognition*
Humans
Intelligence
Intelligence Tests
Korea
Language Tests
Noise*
Reading
Vocabulary
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