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Sofie Fredriksson
Researcher
School of Public Health and Community MedicineAbout Sofie Fredriksson
Licensed audiologist, graduated in 2008 from the audiology program and took a master's degree in audiology in 2011, both at the University of Gothenburg. Finished my PhD in June 2018 at Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Gothenburg, with the dissertation: "Hearing-related symptoms among women - Occurrence and risk in relation to occupational noise and stressful working conditions" (link).
Currently working as a researcher at Occupational and Environmental Medicine in the research group Sound Environment and Health (link). My research mainly concerns the area of hearing and health in relation to noise and psychosocial stress exposure in female-dominated workplaces, particularly in preschool and health care, and touches on gender aspects in the field of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
I currently research how sound sensitivty (hyperacusis) and sound-induced auditory fatigue affects work function, through my Postdoc grant from AFA Insurance.
In addition to research, I have taught at the Bachelor programme in Audiology since 2011, mainly in audiological diagnostics and linguistics and phonetics. Today, I am involved only as a guest lecturer. I currently also work at the audiology clinic (Sahlgrenska Hospital) with hearing and balance diagnostics.
Since autumn 2021 I am elected as alternate for Behavioral Sciences in the Board of the Hearing Research Fund. The assignment mainly involves yearly assessments of research applications.
Since the summer of 2021, I have also been elected co-chair of "Team 1: Noise-induced hearing loss" within the ICBEN Executive Committee (ICBEN, the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise (link). Each team is responsible for the congress sessions on the topic, as well as reviewing the research area between each Congress.
My profile on Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sofie_Fredriksson
My profile on Google Scholar: Sofie Fredriksson - Google Scholar
My ORCID-profile: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0698-527X
Link to our research group on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Sound_n_health
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Occupational noise exposure, noise annoyance, hearing-related symptoms, and emotional exhaustion - a participatory-based intervention study in preschool and obstetrics
care
Sofie Fredriksson, Huiqi Li, Mia Söderberg, Kristina Gyllensten, Stephen Widén, Kerstin Persson Waye
Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health - 2023 -
Qualitative studies on the experience of noise in communication-intense workplaces before and after a participatory
intervention
Sofie Fredriksson, Kristina Gyllensten, Mia Söderberg, Stephen Widén, Kerstin Persson Waye
14th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, 18-22 June, Belgrade Serbia - 2023 -
Preschool teachers experience of sound-induced auditory fatigue: a qualitative content analysis of n852 free-text survey
responses
Sofie Fredriksson, Isabell Brunsten, Christine Christoffersson, Kristina Gyllensten
14th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, 18-22 June, Belgrade Serbia - 2023 -
Lyssningströtthet och ljudtrötthet - definitioner, prevalens och validering av
mätinstrument
Sofie Fredriksson, Maria Hoff
Svensk Audiologisk Konferens, 21–22 november 2023 i Göteborg - 2023 -
The experience of noise in communicationintense workplaces: A qualitative
study
Kristina Gyllensten, Sofie Fredriksson, Stephen Widen, Kerstin Persson Waye
PLoS ONE - 2023 -
Nurses’ and preschool teachers’ experiences of taking part in a participatory intervention project in communication-intense working
environments
Kristina Gyllensten, Sofie Fredriksson, Stephen Widén, Mia Söderberg, Kerstin Persson Waye
WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation - 2022 -
The Impact of Occupational Noise Exposure on Hyperacusis: a Longitudinal Population Study of Female Workers in
Sweden.
Sofie Fredriksson, Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Kjell Torén, Mattias Sjöström, Jenny Selander, Per Gustavsson, Kim R. Kähäri, Lennart Magnusson, Kerstin Persson Waye
Ear and Hearing - 2021 -
The impact of nocturnal road traffic noise, bedroom window orientation, and work-related stress on subjective sleep quality: results of a cross-sectional study among working
women.
Susanne Bartels, Mikael Ögren, Jeong-Lim Kim, Sofie Fredriksson, Kerstin Persson Waye
International archives of occupational and environmental health - 2021 -
Occupational noise and hypertension -a cross-sectional study on Swedish
women
Natalia Vincens, Huiqi Li, Kerstin Persson Waye, Sofie Fredriksson
Conference: The 13th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health ProblemAt: Stockholm, Sweden (online) - 2021 -
Hearing-related symptoms and occupational noise exposure among women: An intervention study in preschool and obstetrics
care
Sofie Fredriksson, Huiqi Li, Mia Söderberg, Kristina Gyllensten, Stephen Widén, Kerstin Persson Waye
13th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Stockholm - 2020 -
Working in preschool increases the risk of hearing-related symptoms: a cohort study among Swedish
women
Sofie Fredriksson, Jeong-Lim Kim, Kjell Torén, Kim R. Kähäri, Mia Söderberg, Kerstin Persson Waye
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - 2019 -
Preschool teachers’ perspective on how high noise levels at preschool affect children’s
behavior
Kerstin Persson Waye, Sofie Fredriksson, Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Johanna Gustafsson, Irene van Kamp
PLoS ONE - 2019 -
Hearing-related symptoms among women - Occurrence and risk in relation to occupational noise and stressful working
conditions
Sofie Fredriksson
2018 -
The effect of occupational noise on hearing-related symptoms - exploring mediating and modifying effect of annoyance and
stress
Sofie Fredriksson, Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Kerstin Persson Waye
Proceedings of the 12th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (Vol. 6, pp. 18-22). - 2017 -
Validating self-reporting of hearing-related symptoms against pure-tone audiometry,otoacoustic emission, and speech
audiometry
Sofie Fredriksson, Oscar Hammar, Lennart Magnusson, Kim R. Kähäri, Kerstin Persson Waye
International Journal of Audiology - 2016 -
Preschool teachers have an increased risk of hearing-related symptoms and report more occupational noise exposure compared to randomly selected
women
Sofie Fredriksson, Jeong-Lim Kim, Kjell Torén, Kim R. Kähäri, Lennart Magnusson, Kerstin Persson Waye
Occupational Health: Think Globally, Act Locally, EPICOH 2016, September 4–7, 2016, Barcelona, Spain. Occupational & Environmental Medicine - 2016 -
Ökad risk för hörselsymtom bland
förskollärare
Sofie Fredriksson, Kjell Torén, Kim R. Kähäri, Lennart Magnusson, Jeong-Lim Kim, Kerstin Persson Waye
Forte Talks, 8-9 mars 2016, Stockholm - 2016 -
The effect of occupational noise exposure on tinnitus and sound-induced auditory fatigue among obstetrics personnel: a cross-sectional
study.
Sofie Fredriksson, Oscar Hammar, Kjell Torén, Artur Tenenbaum, Kerstin Persson Waye
BMJ Open - 2015 -
A Screening Approach for Classroom Acoustics Using Web-Based Listening Tests and Subjective
Ratings
Kerstin Persson Waye, Lennart Magnusson, Sofie Fredriksson, Ilona Croy
Plos One - 2015 -
Exposure to high sound levels and risk of hearing related disorder among obstetrics
personnel
Sofie Fredriksson, Kerstin Persson Waye
Proceedings of 11th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (ICBEN), 1-5 June 2014, Nara, Japan - 2014 -
Current perspective on children’s auditory perception and consequences of noise exposure
effects
Sofie Fredriksson, Janina Fels, Kerstin Persson Waye
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - 2013