Polluted places or polluted minds? An experimental sham-exposure study on background psychological factors of symptom formation in ‘Idiophatic Environmental Intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields’

Szemerszky, Renáta; Köteles, Ferenc; Lihi, Réka; Bárdos, György

doi:10.1016/j.ijheh.2010.05.001

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“…The categories proposed by Kroenke et al [10] are minimal (PHQ-15 score =0-4), low (5-9), medium (10)(11)(12)(13)(14), and high (15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As shown in Table 1, gender was significantly associated with PHQ-15 severity (p b 0.001), with more men than women in the lowest scoring category (0-4) and more women than men in the highest scoring category (15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30). Linear trends across the 4 PHQ groups were significant for sex (p b 0.001), education (p = 0.05), marital status (p = 0.006), history of depression (p b 0.001) and number of major medical conditions (p = 0.02).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The PHQ-15 is a brief validated measure for assessing somatic symptom severity [14] with good test-retest reliability, internal consistency and construct and criterion validity [10,15], and it has been translated in a number of languages, including Dutch [15], Spanish [16], German [17], Korean [18], Hungarian [19] and Swedish [20]. So far, there is no documentation of a validation of the Greek version of the PHQ-15 for use within patients with longterm medical conditions seeking unscheduled or urgent care in the AED.…”

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Validity of the Greek version of the PHQ 15-item Somatic Symptom Severity Scale in patients with chronic medical conditions and correlations with emergency department use and illness perceptions

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Kroenke

Papatheodorou

et al. 2014

Comprehensive Psychiatry

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Validity of the Greek version of the PHQ 15-item Somatic Symptom Severity Scale in patients with chronic medical conditions and correlations with emergency department use and illness perceptions

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Papatheodorou

et al. 2014

Comprehensive Psychiatry

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“…The results showed no evidence for a causal relationship between these symptoms and RF exposure in double blind experiments, and several studies have moreover suggested the existence of a noc ebo effect and somatisation . 17,18 Similar symptoms were reported for ca ses of m ultiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), sick building syndrome (SBS), chronic fatigue syndrome and Gulf war syndrome. For each of these, a more ge neral applicable name, which describes sensitivity to environmental factors, is referred to as Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance (IEI) by the WHO .…”

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Risk Assessment of Radio Frequencies and Public Information

Poumadère¹,

Perrin²

2013

JRACR

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The rapid, worldwide development of mobile phones is accompanied in many countries by public concern over the possible health risks of radio frequencies (RF). National and international health agencies have undertaken risk assessments, and an in-depth study was rec ently conducted with the French Agency on Environment and Health Safety (AFSSET). This paper builds upon this experience, considering not only risk assessment as it bears upon a physical object (RF), but also concerning activities largely characterized along psychosocial dimensions (mobile phone use). It becomes a theoretical and methodological challenge, however, to integrate these characteristics into the assessment process. The research of causal links between RF exposure and subsequent biological or health effects is the main focus of expology. Applied in the AFSSET assessment, the results are in line with previous reviews of research: biological response appears nonexistent or limited to a few cases, and there is no evidence of RF health effects. Considering these results, we specifically look at how information may play a role in the construction of the psychological and social relationship to risk, with a particular emphasis on potential health impacts. In that context, we explore the lesser-known notion of socio-cognitive exposure, char acterized by chronic exposure of populations to potentially worrying information when various health consequences are evoked in the literature and by the media. Th is raises the possibility of a link between risk information and health. Several specific explanations are explored here, notably: nocebo, stress, and the symmetry rule.

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“…A helyzet által keltett tünetelvárások valóban tünetek képzéséhez vezettek mind az IEI-EMF-es, mind az egészséges résztvevôk esetében (Heinrich, Ossig, Schlittmeier, & Hellbrück, 2007;Rubin és mtsai, 2006). Sôt, az erô-sebbnek vélt mezô expozíciója több panaszt eredményezett, ugyanakkor a valós és az észlelt térerôsség között nem volt kapcsolat (Regel és mtsai, 2006;Szemerszky, Köteles, Lihi, & Bárdos, 2010). Az álexpozíció során olyan agyterületek (anterior cingulum, insula, fusiform gyrus) egyidejû aktiválódását mutatták ki, melyek a kellemetlenség mint ingerminôség észlelésében vesznek részt (Landgrebe és mtsai, 2008).…”

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Electromagnetic hypersensitivity in the light of empirical results

Szemerszky¹

2011

Mentálhigiéné és Pszichoszomatika

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Az elektromágneses túlérzékenység (electromagnetic hypersensitivity -EHS) a modern korral együtt járó egészségi problémák egyik tipikus képviselôje, lényegében a mûködô elektromos eszközök és berendezések közelében észlelt kellemetlen közérzetet és nem-specifikus tüneteket takarja. Jelen narratív összefoglaló áttekinti a jelenség definiálásával, diagnózisával és terápiájával kapcsolatos legfontosabb problémákat, a különféle magyarázó elméleteket, valamint az azokat alátámasztó empirikus eredményeket. A leginkább elfogadott megközelítés szerint az EHS esetében az idiopátiás környezeti intolerancia (idiopathic environmental intolerance -IEI) egyik válfajáról van szó, ahol az ok-okozati viszonyok még nem világosak. Bár az elektromágneses terek és sugárzások közvetlen hatása ("toxikogén" megközelítés) sem kizárható, a legtöbb bizonyíték a "pszichogén" eredet mellett szól. A tünetek ál-expozícióval is kiválthatók, a betegekre fokozott szomatizációs és szomatoszenzoros amplifikációs hajlam jellemzô, ezért a jelenséget sokan a nocebo-hatással kapcsolják össze. Összességében elmondható az, hogy egy tipikusan multikauzális, csak biopszichoszociális megközelítésben megragadható és kezelhetô problémáról van szó.

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Polluted places or polluted minds? An experimental sham-exposure study on background psychological factors of symptom formation in ‘Idiophatic Environmental Intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields’

Cited by 81 publications

References 45 publications

Validity of the Greek version of the PHQ 15-item Somatic Symptom Severity Scale in patients with chronic medical conditions and correlations with emergency department use and illness perceptions

Validity of the Greek version of the PHQ 15-item Somatic Symptom Severity Scale in patients with chronic medical conditions and correlations with emergency department use and illness perceptions

Risk Assessment of Radio Frequencies and Public Information

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity in the light of empirical results

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