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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cho, Seunghyeon
• Lim, Dae-Young
• Kim, Suwhan
• Kim, Hyeonjun
• Kang, WonYang
• Park, Won-Ju

Titel

Association between Occupational Noise Exposure and Insomnia among Night-Shift Production Workers: A 4-Year Follow-up Study

Ist Teil von

• Noise & health, 2023-07, Vol.25 (118), p.135-142

Ort / Verlag

India: Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study aimed to investigate whether occupational noise exposure is a risk factor for insomnia among male night-shift production workers. This study followed 623 male night-shift production workers at a tire manufacturing factory without insomnia for 4 years. Insomnia was evaluated based on the insomnia severity index at baseline and at 4-year follow-up. A score of ≥15 was defined as insomnia. The higher occupational noise exposure group was defined as those individuals exposed to 8-hour time-weighted-average noise above 80 dB (A). Participants' mean age was 46.3 ± 5.6 years. Of the 623 participants, 362 (58.1%) were in the higher occupational noise exposure group. At 4-year follow-up, insomnia occurred in 3.2% (n = 20) of the participants. In a multiple logistic regression analysis, the odds ratio of insomnia was 3.36 (95% confidence interval 1.083-10.405, P = 0.036) in the higher occupational noise exposure group when compared with the lower noise exposure group after adjusting for confounders. Our findings suggested that occupational noise exposure affected insomnia in male night-shift production workers. To prevent insomnia, efforts are required to reduce workplace noise exposure levels. Alternatively, moving to a less noisy work environment should be considered for workers with severe insomnia.