Whilst the effects of aircraft noise on children's cognition are well-accepted, their application in Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and methodologies to monetise the effects of noise on health have been limited. This paper presents the first meta-analysis of the effect of aircraft noise at school on children's reading comprehension and psychological health assessed with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Data from three methodologically similar studies carried out in 106 schools near London Heathrow, Amsterdam Schiphol, and Madrid Barajas airports (the Schools Environment and Health Study, the West London Schools Study, and the RANCH study) were analysed finding that a 1 dB increase in aircraft noise exposure at school was associated with a −0.007 (95%CI −0.012 to −0.001) decrease in reading score and a 4% increase in odds of scoring well below or below average on the reading test. The analyses also found that a 1 dB increase in aircraft noise exposure at school was associated with a 0.017 (95%CI 0.007–0.028) increase in hyperactivity score. No effects were observed for emotional symptoms, conduct problems or Total Difficulties Score. Meta-analyses confirm existing evidence for effects of aircraft noise exposure on children's reading comprehension, providing a pooled estimate and exposure-effect relationship, as well as additional estimates and relationships for effects on scoring ‘well below or below average’ on the reading test offering flexibility for taking reading comprehension into account in HIA and monetisation methodologies in a wide-range of contexts.

虽然飞机噪音对儿童认知的影响已被广泛接受，但它们在健康影响评估 (HIA) 和将噪音对健康的影响货币化的方法中的应用受到限制。本文首次对学校飞机噪音对儿童阅读理解和心理健康影响的荟萃分析进行了评估，并通过优势和困难问卷进行了评估。在伦敦希思罗机场、阿姆斯特丹史基浦机场和马德里巴拉哈斯机场附近的 106 所学校（学校环境与健康研究、西伦敦学校研究和 RANCH 研究）中进行的三项方法相似的研究的数据进行了分析，发现 1 dB 增加学校的飞机噪音暴露与 -0.007（95%CI -0.012 至 -0. 001) 阅读分数下降，阅读测试得分远低于或低于平均水平的几率增加 4%。分析还发现，学校飞机噪音暴露增加 1 dB 与多动评分增加 0.017 (95% CI 0.007–0.028) 相关。没有观察到情绪症状、行为问题或总难度得分的影响。荟萃分析证实了飞机噪声暴露对儿童阅读理解影响的现有证据，提供了汇总估计和暴露-影响关系，以及对阅读测试中“远低于或低于平均水平”得分影响的额外估计和关系在 HIA 和货币化方法中考虑阅读理解的灵活性在广泛的背景下。