Study on relationship between noise sensitivity and mental health status

  Objective   To investigate whether mental health of those workers who are sensitive to noise is vulnerable to the negative effect of noise, and whether noise sensitivity can become one of indexes reflecting the sensitivity of mental disease caused by noise.

  Methods   Physical factors in workplace of study group and control group were monifored, and the data about general condition, noise sensitivity, general reactions to noise and mental health status were collected.

  Results   The scores of both general noise sensitivity and self-report noise sensitivity showed that sensitivity of study group was higher than that of control group, and the differences between of the two groups were statistically significant(P < 0.01).Regardless of male or female, the scores of every metntal scale of study group were higher than those of control study.Meanwhile, the scores of general reactions to noise and every mental scale gradually increased with the augment of noise sensitivity, as well as the difference of scroes of every mental scale among different groups of noise sensitivity except in factorial score of sociable obstaue was statistically significant(P < 0.05).

  Conclusions   High noise sensitivity of workers was associated with worse mental health, which implied that noise sensitivity could become one of indexes reflecting the sensitivity of mental diseases caused by noise.