Clubbing: the cumulative effect of noise exposure from attendance at dance clubs and night clubs on whole-of-life noise exposure.

Anecdotally it has been suggested that exposure to some noise sources through leisure activities could have a significant effect on whole-of-life noise exposure. While exposure levels do vary, a typical night club or dance club attendee was found to experience an equivalent continuous A-weighted noise level of around 98 dB for up to 5 hours with an exposure of 12.2 Pa(2)h. This can extend up to 104 Pa(2)h in extreme cases. A study of "clubbers" reveals regular clubbing to be a source of high noise exposure, with a sustained period of regular club attendance contributing to a significant portion of whole-of-life noise exposure.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Noise and Health

• Publication date

  2010-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4103/1463-1741.64970PMID 20603571
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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