Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (대한소아청소년정신의학회)
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Chronic Aircraft Noise Exposure and Sustained Attention, Continuous Performance and Cognition in Children

만성 항공기 소음 노출과 아동의 지속주의력과 연속수행능력 및 인지기능

  • Lim, Myung-Ho (Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Dankook University) ;
  • Park, Young-Hyun (Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Dankook University) ;
  • Lee, Woo-Chul (Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Dankook University) ;
  • Paik, Ki-Chung (Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Dankook University) ;
  • Kim, Hyun-Woo (Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Dankook University) ;
  • Kim, Hyun-Joo (Department of Occupational Medicine, College of Medicine, Dankook University) ;
  • Rho, Sang-Chul (Department of Occupational Medicine, College of Medicine, Dankook University) ;
  • Kim, Hae-Young (Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kwon, Ho-Jang (Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Dankook University)
  • 임명호 (단국대학교 의과대학 정신과학교실) ;
  • 박영현 (단국대학교 의과대학 정신과학교실) ;
  • 이우철 (단국대학교 의과대학 정신과학교실) ;
  • 백기청 (단국대학교 의과대학 정신과학교실) ;
  • 김현우 (단국대학교 의과대학 정신과학교실) ;
  • 김현주 (단국대학교 의과대학 산업의학교실) ;
  • 노상철 (단국대학교 의과대학 산업의학교실) ;
  • 김혜영 (서울대학교 치과대학 치학연구소) ;
  • 권호장 (단국대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실)
  • Published : 2007.10.30
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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.

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