van Dongen Diana, Smid Tjabe, Timmermans Daniëlle R M
Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Centre, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Perspect Public Health. 2014 May;134(3):160-8. doi: 10.1177/1757913913492931. Epub 2013 Aug 2.
To investigate differences in health perception and electromagnetic fields (EMF) between people within the general population reporting sensitivity or non-sensitivity to EMF, and people who registered themselves as sensitive to EMF at a non-governmental organisation (NGO).
Correlations and regression analysis to compare a sample of the general population recruited via internet panel to individuals with idiopathic environmental intolerance to EMF (IEI-EMF) recruited via an interest group.
The general population sensitive group was more similar to the non-sensitive group in personal characteristics than to the NGO sensitive group. They experienced more - and more frequent - non-specific symptoms, reported higher perceived risk of EMF, and attributed their symptoms more to EMF than the non-sensitive group, but less than the NGO sensitive group. There was a positive association between attribution of symptoms to EMF and reported intensity of non-specific symptoms, which was stronger for the NGO sensitive subjects than for the general population.
People sensitive to EMF and recruited via an internet panel differ from people sensitive to EMF and recruited via an NGO, who reported a higher frequency of non-specific symptoms. Attribution of symptoms to EMF is one of the predictors of the intensity of physical symptoms. Changing the perceived association between EMF and health problems in individuals with IEI-EMF might contribute to a better health experience.
调查在普通人群中报告对电磁场（EMF）敏感或不敏感的人与在非政府组织（NGO）登记自己对EMF敏感的人之间在健康认知和电磁场方面的差异。
进行相关性和回归分析，以比较通过互联网小组招募的普通人群样本与通过兴趣小组招募的特发性环境不耐受电磁辐射（IEI-EMF）个体。
普通人群敏感组在个人特征上与不敏感组比与NGO敏感组更相似。他们经历了更多且更频繁的非特异性症状，报告的EMF感知风险更高，并且与不敏感组相比，他们将症状更多地归因于EMF，但比NGO敏感组少。将症状归因于EMF与报告的非特异性症状强度之间存在正相关，NGO敏感受试者的这种相关性比普通人群更强。
通过互联网小组招募的对EMF敏感的人与通过NGO招募的对EMF敏感的人不同，后者报告的非特异性症状频率更高。将症状归因于EMF是身体症状强度的预测因素之一。改变IEI-EMF个体中EMF与健康问题之间的感知关联可能有助于改善健康体验。
