Beh, H C · The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 1997 · DOI
This study looked at how noise affects people with ME/CFS, examining whether environmental sounds make their symptoms worse. The research observed how patients responded to noise stress as part of understanding the condition better. This type of research helps identify triggers that may worsen fatigue and other ME/CFS symptoms.
Understanding how environmental factors like noise affect ME/CFS patients can help inform symptom management strategies and inform clinical care recommendations. Many ME/CFS patients report sensory sensitivities, making research on noise as a trigger relevant to daily quality of life.
This observational study does not establish a causal mechanism between noise and ME/CFS symptoms, nor does it prove that noise causes disease exacerbation in all patients. The findings cannot be generalized to all ME/CFS populations without larger, controlled studies, and individual responses to noise stress may vary considerably.
About the PEM badge: “PEM required” means post-exertional malaise was an explicit required diagnostic criterion for participant inclusion in this study — not that PEM was studied, observed, or discussed. Studies using criteria that do not require PEM (e.g. Fukuda, Oxford) are tagged “PEM not required”. How the atlas works →
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Primary citation
Beh, H C (1997). Effect of noise stress on chronic fatigue syndrome patients.. The Journal of nervous and mental disease. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-199701000-00010
BibTeX
@article{mecfsatlas-beh-1997-effect-noise,
author = {Beh, H C},
title = {Effect of noise stress on chronic fatigue syndrome patients.},
journal = {The Journal of nervous and mental disease},
year = {1997},
doi = {10.1097/00005053-199701000-00010},
note = {PubMed: 9040535},
url = {https://www.mecfsatlas.com/evidence/beh-1997-effect-noise},
}Atlas snapshot reference
ME/CFS Atlas. Generator v1 / Scanner v1.4 / policy v0.1. Accessed 2026-05-30. https://www.mecfsatlas.com/evidence/beh-1997-effect-noise
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