Nurses in two long-term care facilities indicated that about 30% of residents presented noise-making behavior. From their descriptions, a typology of noise-making was identified: purposeless and perseverative noise-making, noise-making in response to the environment, noise-making to elicit a response from the environment, “chatterbox” noise-making, noise-making in the context of deafness, and other noise-making. The clinical value of this typology is discussed.
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Ryan et al. (1988) studied this question.