Depressive symptoms of people living in areas with high exposure to environmental noise: a multilevel analysis.

ABSTRACT: Exposure and damage caused by noise have been reported in many countries around the world. However, few nationwide studies explored the association of residential environmental noise with depressive symptoms, this study aims to examine this association. The Korean Community Health Survey at the individual-level and the Korean Environmental Noise Measurement Database at the regional-level were used. A total of 30,630 individuals were eligible for the analysis. Multilevel model framework was applied to account for the clustered structure of the regional-level data in which individual-level data containing demographic characteristics and health information were nested. As a result of the analysis, Individuals living in the highest environmental noise area had a 1.55 times higher likelihood of

SUBMITTER: Yun I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11196651 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature