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Searching for the association between misophonia symptoms, noise sensitivity, and noise annoyance
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- Item Type: #journalArticle
- Authors: Katarina Paunović, Sanja Milenković
- Date: 2021
- Date Added: 2021-07-25
- Cite key: paunovicSearchingAssociationMisophonia2021
- Topics: Misophonia
- Tags: , #Misophonia, #zotero, #literature-notes, #reference
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Abstract
The association between noise annoyance, noise sensitivity, and misophonia symptoms is currently unknown. A cross-sectional study was performed among 531 medical students (aged 22±2 years). Noise annoyance from seven outdoor and indoor sources was self-reported using a verbal annoyance scale. Students were predominantly annoyed by the electrical appliances in the buildings (19.6% of all students), construction works on the streets (17.7%), humans or animals indoors or outdoors (15.3%), and road traffic (10.2%). Noise sensitivity was measured with Weinstein’s Noise Sensitivity Scale. High noise sensitivity was an independent predictor for high annoyance from almost all sources. Misophonia symptoms (adverse reactions to specific provoking sounds emitted by humans) were reported using a modified Amsterdam Misophonia scale. High perceived misophonia doubled the chance of reporting high annoyance from road traffic, construction works on the streets, electrical appliances indoors, humans and animals, independently from age, gender, perceived anxiety, perceived depression, and noise sensitivity. Perceived depression was predictor for high annoyance from air traffic, construction works on the streets, and humans or animals. Perceived anxiety was not associated with high noise annoyance.
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| Background/Purpose | Background- • it is unknown if there is an association between noise annoyance, noise sensitivity, and Misophonia symptoms. Purpose- • examine if such an association exists • examine if age, gender, perceived anxiety, and perceived depression are predictive of noise sensitivity and perceived noise annoyance to miso triggers. |
| Participants/samples | • 531 first and second year medical students. |
| Measures | • Weinstein’s Noise Sensitivity Scale. • Amsterdam Misophonia Scale (A-MISO-S) • Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAMA) • Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HRSD) |
| Procedures | • cross-sectional • subjects completed an anonymous questionnaire probing features of interest. • subject annoyance from 7 different environmental sources were probed. [ electrical appliances inside the building, construction work on the street, human/animals (indoor/outdoor), road traffic, industrial facilities, entertainment facilities, air traffic] |
| Results | Analysis • Students t-test for parametric data • Chi-squared test for non-parametric data • multiple logistic regressions • odds ratio Results • high perceived misophonia doubled chances of reporting high annoyance from all tested sources expect for entertainment areas. • Misophonia symptoms correlated with noise sensitivity (ρ = .364), anxiety (ρ = .264), depression (ρ = .302); all p < .001; no age correlation. • High annoyance prevalence (%): electrical appliances 19.6; construction 17.7; humans/animals 15.3; road traffic 10.2; industrial 5.6; entertainment 4.9; air traffic 3.2; no gender differences. • High noise sensitivity predicted annoyance from: electrical appliances OR 2.93; construction 2.01; humans/animals 3.89; road traffic 2.67; entertainment 4.11; NS for industrial, air traffic. • High perceived misophonia predicted annoyance from: electrical appliances OR 1.98; construction 1.80; humans/animals 2.28; road traffic 2.19; NS for industrial, entertainment, air traffic. • High perceived depression predicted humans/animals OR 2.27; NS others. • High perceived anxiety: NS all sources. • Male gender predicted construction annoyance OR 1.68. |
| Discussion/Limits | Conclusion- • misophonia, noise sensitivity an/annoyance lie on a spectrum of environment-related sensitivity, and miso management should be the focus of any treatment of environmental intolerances. • noise sensitivity and misophonia are independently connected to noise annoyance. • The authors conclude that noise sensitivity and misophonia are independently associated with noise annoyance. • The findings indicate that students with high noise sensitivity are at increased risk of high annoyance from multiple environmental sources. • The data support that high perceived misophonia predicts high annoyance from humans/animals, road traffic, construction works, and electrical appliances. • The authors state that the association is independent of age, gender, anxiety, and depression. • The authors report that high perceived misophonia does not predict annoyance from entertainment facilities. • The authors propose that misophonia and noise sensitivity act independently in the development of noise annoyance. • The authors hypothesize that misophonia, noise sensitivity, and noise annoyance lie on a spectrum of environment-related intolerances. • The authors state that reverse causation between quality of life and annoyance/misophonia cannot be ruled out. |
| Limitations:: | • use of A-MISO-S calls validity into misophonia status into question. • limited generalizability due to the sample source (medical students) • possible failure to identify other relevant demographic, SES, or personality traits that could account for the noise sensitivity. • failure to identify noise-specific annoyance • failure to consider subjects regular exposure to the sound sources probed. • design dose not allow inferring causation. |
| Relevance:: | matt once told us to look into research on sound annoyance, and this article does so with misophonia. |
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Paunović and Milenković 2021 findings on misophonia symptoms, noise sensitivity, and noise annoyance