Relating use of mobile phones to reported sleep quality

Somnologie

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 199-202

  Herr, Caroline E W ^a   Zur Nieden, Anja ^a   Lindenstruth, Marina ^a   Stilianakis, Nikolaos I ^b,c   Seitz, Heike ^a   Eikmann, Thomas F ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

EMF; Freiburg Personality Inventory (FPI R); Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI); Quality of life (SF 36); SOMS; Unexplained physical complaints; Use of mobile phones

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; PERSONALITY TEST; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP PATTERN;

EID: 28444445209     PISSN: 14329123     EISSN: 1439054X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-054X.2005.00071.x     Document Type: Article

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