Studi Tentang General Reaction Score pada Wanita yang Mengalami Stres Bising Pesawat Udara di Sekitar Bandara Adi Sumarmo Boyolali

Exposure to noise constitutes a health risk. There is sufficient scientific evidence that aircraft noise exposure can induce hearing impairment, hypertension and ischemic heart disease, annoyance, sleep disturbance, and decreased school performance. The aims of the research is to find out the effect of the aircraft noise level to the General Reaction Score of women in the area of Adi Sumarmo Airport of Boyolali.The research finding is expected to contribute to the science development and to give benefits for local government and among people in the Area of Adi Sumarmo Airport in preventing the effect of aircraft noise. The research design was an analytical survey with a cross sectional approach, taking location at the Dibal and Gagak Sipat Village, Ngemplak Sub district, Boyolali District. The research was conducted from July 2008 to October 2008. The number of respondens was 39. They were divided into 3 groups; Group 1 was exposed 92.29dB of noise level (13 respondents); Group 2 was exposed 71.79 dB of noise level (13 respondents); and Group 3 was exposed 52.17 dB of noise level (13 respondents). The samples were taken using simple random sampling. The data were analyzed by Anova followed by Post Hoc Test using LSD test completed with Homogenous Subsets. Based on the results of the analysis, a conclusion was drawn that there was a significant effect of the aircraft noise level to the difference of General Reaction Score of women in the area of Adi Sumarmo Airport of Boyolali (p < 0,05)