Noise: Child/Teen Mental Health Variables affecting age-specific vulnerability Variables directly related to health inequalities

  • In a systematic umbrella review with 8 Systematic Reviews and 1 Report
  • “...\underline{existing systematic reviews} suggest that road traffic noise has a harmful association with anxiety but no association with depression.
  • The overall quality of the evidence varied widely, ranging from very low to moderate.
  • Key findings are the indication of road noise having a harmful association with anxiety and hyperactivity but no association with depression." (Hussain, et al., 2026)