Investigation of the effects of nocturnal aircraft noise on sleep in elderly people
- Conditions
- aircraft noise induced sleep disorder
- Registration Number
- DRKS00020133
- Lead Sponsor
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Luft- und Raumfahrtmedizin, Abteilung für Flugphysiologie
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 49
Inclusion Criteria
normal hearing, no chronic diseases
Exclusion Criteria
Duration of living in the residential area to be measured < 1 year; any medication influencing the examination parameters; any other medical condition which, in the opinion of the doctors performing the test, makes the test persons appear unsuitable; high ambient noise except aircraft noise, which can mask individual overflight sounds.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The time-synchronous recording of physiological and acoustic signals is the basis for an event-related evaluation of flight noise-associated wake-up reactions and allows the exact correlation between an aircraft noise event and a wake-up reaction. In the event-related analysis it is checked whether within 3 epochs (?90 s) after the beginning of an aircraft noise event a stage change from a deeper sleep stage to the awake or S1 stage has occurred.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Every morning after getting up, the test persons evaluate the past night in retrospect with regard to their sleep quality and short-term annoyance caused by aircraft noise as well as their current state of health.