Table 1 Prevalence of medication use and factors of interest by country
|  | UK N* = 585 (288/297) | GE N* = 969 (502/467) | NL N* = 871 (445/426) | SW N* = 991 (481/510) | GR N* = 618 (337/281) | IT N* = 612 (284/328) | FR N* = 1221 (683/538) | Overall N* = 5867 (3020/2847) | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Antihypertensive medication a | 181 (30.9) | 315 (32.5) | 199 (22.8) | 221 (22.3) | 188 (30.4) | 180 (29.4) | 195 (16.0) | 1479 (25.2) | < 0.01 |
Antacids a | 62 (10.6) | 78 (8.0) | 83 (9.5) | 38 (3.8) | 29 (4.7) | 35 (5.7) | 68 (5.6) | 393 (6.7) | < 0.01 |
Anxiolytics a | 6 (1.0) | 5 (0.5) | 42 (4.8) | 11 (1.1) | 26 (4.2) | 55 (9.0) | 75 (6.1) | 220 (3.8) | < 0.01 |
Hypnotics a | 13 (2.2) | 10 (1.0) | 31 (3.6) | 30 (3.0) | 1 (0.2) | 12 (2.0) | 48 (3.9) | 145 (2.5) | < 0.01 |
Anxiolytics, hypnotics and sedatives a | 19 (3.2) | 14 (1.4) | 70 (8.0) | 37 (3.7) | 27 (4.4) | 64 (10.5) | 114 (9.3) | 345 (5.9) | < 0.01 |
Antidepressants a | 38 (6.5) | 29 (3.0) | 48 (5.5) | 53 (5.3) | 7 (1.1) | 18 (2.9) | 44 (3.6) | 237 (4.0) | < 0.01 |
Antasthmatics a | 50 (8.5) | 43 (4.4) | 44 (5.1) | 50 (5.0) | 19 (3.1) | 10 (1.6) | 42 (3.4) | 258 (4.4) | < 0.01 |
Aircraft noise levels (Lnight) b | 49.3 (10.5) | 40.2 (10.0) | 42.2 (8.9) | 39.5 (7.9) | 41.7 (4.6) | 35.4 (6.4) | 45.1 (6.4) | 42.0 (8.9) | < 0.01 |
Aircraft noise annoyance a | < 0.01 | ||||||||
 Not highly annoyed | 394 (67.4) | 816 (84.2) | 774 (88.9) | 893 (90.1) | 349 (56.7) | 475 (77.6) | 999 (81.8) | 4700 (80.1) |  |
 Highly annoyed | 191 (32.6) | 153 (15.8) | 97 (11.1) | 98 (9.9) | 267 (43.3) | 137 (22.4) | 222 (18.2) | 1165 (19.9) |  |
Noise sensitivity a | < 0.01 | ||||||||
 Low | 132 (22.8) | 389 (40.2) | 360 (41.4) | 516 (52.1) | 209 (33.9) | 199 (32.6) | 270 (22.3) | 2075 (35.5) |  |
 Medium | 192 (33.2) | 282 (29.1) | 290 (33.3) | 222 (22.4) | 162 (26.3) | 130 (21.3) | 582 (48.0) | 1860 (31.8) |  |
 High | 255 (44.0) | 297 (30.7) | 220 (25.3) | 253 (25.5) | 245 (39.8) | 282 (46.2) | 361 (29.8) | 1913 (32.7) |  |