DEBATS - Longitudinal study of the effects of aircraft noise exposure on the health of people living in the vicinity of French airports
Head :
Evrard Anne-Sophie, Epidemiological Research and Surveillance Unit in Transport, Occupation and Environment (UMRESTTE)
Last update : 11/10/2017 | Version : 2 | ID : 73118
| General | |
| Identification | |
| Detailed name | Longitudinal study of the effects of aircraft noise exposure on the health of people living in the vicinity of French airports |
| Sign or acronym | DEBATS |
| CNIL registration number, number and date of CPP agreement, AFSSAPS (French Health Products Safety Agency) authorisation | DR-2012-242, DR-2012-361, DR-2013-141, DR-2014-147 |
| General Aspects | |
| Medical area |
Biology Cardiology General practice Psychology and psychiatry |
| Pathology (details) | Hypertension, cardiovascular disease, depression, anxiety, psychological distress, sleep disorders, annoyance |
| Health determinants |
Geography Pollution Others (specify) |
| Others (details) | environment |
| Keywords | noise, environment, health, aircraft, epidemiology |
| Scientific investigator(s) (Contact) | |
| Name of the director | Evrard |
| Surname | Anne-Sophie |
| Address |
IFSTTAR Cité des Mobilités 25 avenue François Mitterrand 69 675 BRON Cedex |
| Phone | + 33 (0)4 72 14 24 63 |
| anne-sophie.evrard@ifsttar.fr | |
| Unit | Epidemiological Research and Surveillance Unit in Transport, Occupation and Environment (UMRESTTE) |
| Organization | French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR) |
| Collaborations | |
| Participation in projects, networks and consortia |
Yes |
| Details | Partner: Bruitparif |
| Others | CépiDc-Inserm, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Sleeptech |
| Funding | |
| Funding status |
Public |
| Details | the French Ministry of Health, the French Ministry of Environment, the French Civil Aviation Authority, ANSES |
| Governance of the database | |
| Sponsor(s) or organisation(s) responsible | French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR) |
| Organisation status |
Public |
| Presence of scientific or steering committees |
Yes |
| Additional contact | |
| Main features | |
| Type of database | |
| Type of database |
Study databases |
| Study databases (details) |
Longitudinal study (except cohorts) |
| Database recruitment is carried out by an intermediary |
A population file |
| Database recruitment is is made on the basis of: |
Another treatment or procedure |
| Database recruitment is carried out as part of an interventional study |
No |
| Additional information regarding sample selection. | A random selection was made in a national telephone database in the municipalities near the Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, Toulouse-Blagnac and Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airports. |
| Database objective | |
| Main objective |
The purpose of DEBATS is to better understand and better quantify the effects of aircraft noise exposure on the health of people living near French airports. A global approach is adopted to characterise the relationships between exposure to aircraft noise and the health conditions of those living near the airport on both a physical and mental level, but also in terms of annoyance.
DEBATS includes two studies corresponding to two types of methodological approaches (an ecological study and a longitudinal individual study), as well as a complementary individual study. The subjects included in the two individual studies will be selected from within the zones where the aggregated macroscopic data are available for the ecological study. The comparison of the results from these two types of methodological approaches and the confirmation of their consistency allows for the confirm the reality of the associations that will be shown. DEBATS consists of a national research program among those residing near three French airports, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Lyon-Saint Exupéry and Toulouse-Blagnac. It includes: • An ecological study consisting of a collection of health indicators aggregated at the municipality scale (consumption of care prescribed and reimbursed by health insurance, unreimbursed sale of medications by pharmacies, all-cause mortality and mortality from specific causes) with the weighted average level of exposure to aircraft noise of the municipalities involved. • An individual longitudinal study including 1,244 subjects. During their inclusion in the study, and then two and four years afterward, the information concerning their health condition is obtained at the participants' homes, firstly by administering a questionnaire (effects on sleep and the cardiovascular system, anxiety and depressive disorders and annoyance), and secondly by measuring their blood pressure, heart rate and concentration of salivary cortisol (marker of stress states). • A complementary individual study called the "sleep study", including 90 individuals living near the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport and 20 individuals living near the Toulouse-Blagnac airport who have agreed to participate in the previous study. The objective is to characterise, in a detailed and specific manner, the acute effects of aircraft noise on the quality of sleep, while refining the measurement of exposure to noise. |
| Inclusion criteria | The individuals recruited are 18 years of age or older, who live in one of the municipalities located in the study area and who live in their current housing located in this municipality for at least six months out of the year. In order to be eligible, the subjects must be available throughout the study and must understand and speak French adequately, regardless of nationality, to answer a questionnaire and to undergo various physiological, acoustic and sleep quality measurements. |
| Population type | |
| Age |
Adulthood (19 to 24 years) Adulthood (25 to 44 years) Adulthood (45 to 64 years) Elderly (65 to 79 years) Great age (80 years and more) |
| Population covered |
General population |
| Pathology | |
| Gender |
Male Woman |
| Geography area |
National |
| Detail of the geography area | Municipalities near the Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, Toulouse-Blagnac and Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airports |
| Data collection | |
| Dates | |
| Date of first collection (YYYY or MM/YYYY) | 2013 |
| Date of last collection (YYYY or MM/YYYY) | 2017 |
| Size of the database | |
| Size of the database (number of individuals) |
[1000-10 000[ individuals |
| Details of the number of individuals | 1244 |
| Data | |
| Database activity |
Current data collection |
| Type of data collected |
Declarative data Biological data Administrative data |
| Declarative data (detail) |
Face to face interview |
| Details of collected declarative data | Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the participants, characteristics of their housing, description of their family, data regarding the perception of the environment and, in particular, annoyance due to noise (specifically from aircraft), habits (sleep, sport activities, activities exposing them to sound, consumption of tobacco and alcohol), health data (hospitalisations, consultations, missed days of work, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, anxiety and depressive disorders, psychological distress, sleep disorders, consumption of medications). |
| Biological data (detail) | Measurements of the heart rate and blood pressure, saliva samples to determine the concentration of salivary cortisol, actimetric and heart rhythm measurements to determine awakenings during sleep. |
| Administrative data (detail) | At the scale of municipalities in the study area: mortality data from the Cépi-DC, data from the SNIIRAM (Number of consultations, number of medications that have been prescribed by a physician and reimbursed by Health Insurance, by large families of medications, number of days of work missed due to a medical reason, number of hospitalisations for certain causes, except for PSY), data from the PMSI (number of hospitalisations for PSY causes). |
| Presence of a biobank |
No |
| Health parameters studied |
Health event/morbidity Health event/mortality Health care consumption and services Quality of life/health perception |
| Care consumption (detail) |
Hospitalization Medical/paramedical consultation Medicines consumption |
| Quality of life/perceived health (detail) | Self-reported health |
| Procedures | |
| Participant monitoring |
Yes |
| Monitoring procedures |
Monitoring by contact with the participant (mail, e-mail, telephone etc.) |
| Details on monitoring of participants | The same questionnaire is administered to the same participants in 2013, 2015 and 2017. |
| Links to administrative sources |
No |
| Promotion and access | |
| Promotion | |
| Link to the document | http://www.icben.org/2011/pdf/ICBEN2011.pdf#page=807 |
| Other information | An article on the ecological study is soon to be published. All papers presented at various conferences may not be disseminated. |
| Access | |
| Presence of document that lists variables and coding procedures |
Yes |
| Terms of data access (charter for data provision, format of data, availability delay) | Methods of accessing the database are in the process of being defined. |
| Access to aggregated data |
Access on specific project only |
| Access to individual data |
Access on specific project only |
