Study type:
Risk communication/perception study
(practical study)
"These Power Lines Make Me Ill": A Typology of Residents' Health Responses to a New High-Voltage Power Line
risk
By:
Porsius JT, Claassen L, Woudenberg F, Smid T, Timmermans DRM
Published in: Risk Anal 2017; 37 (12): 2276-2288
Risk perception
Endpoint
- identifying of five subgroups of the belief that health complaints were caused by a power line and linking to sociodemographic data, negative-oriented personality traits, perceived physical and mental health and perception of the environment
Considered exposure sources
Investigated group
229 residents living within 300 m of a new power line in the Netherlands took part in a survey at four different time-points.
