Use of Mobile Phones and Radiofrequency-Emitting Devices in the COSMOS-France Cohort.

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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI:10.3390/ijerph21111514

Isabelle Deltour, Florence Guida, Céline Ribet, Marie Zins, Marcel Goldberg, Joachim Schüz

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Abstract

COSMOS-France is the French part of the COSMOS project, an international prospective cohort study that investigates whether the use of mobile phones and other wireless technologies is associated with health effects and symptoms (cancers, cardiovascular diseases, neurologic pathologies, tinnitus, headaches, or sleep and mood disturbances). Here, we provide the first descriptive results of COSMOS-France, a cohort nested in the general population-based cohort of adults named Constances.

Methods: A total of 39,284 Constances volunteers were invited to participate in the COSMOS-France study during the pilot (2017) and main recruitment phase (2019). Participants were asked to complete detailed questionnaires on their mobile phone use, health conditions, and personal characteristics. We examined the association between mobile phone use, including usage for calls and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), cordless phone use, and Wi-Fi usage with age, sex, education, smoking status, body mass index (BMI), and handedness.

Results: The participation rate was 48.4%, resulting in 18,502 questionnaires in the analyzed dataset. Mobile phone use was reported by 96.1% (N = 17,782). Users reported typically calling 5-29 min per week (37.1%, N = 6600), making one to four calls per day (52.9%, N = 9408), using one phone (83.9%, N = 14,921) and not sharing it (80.4% N = 14,295), mostly using the phone on the side of the head of their dominant hand (59.1%, N = 10,300), not using loudspeakers or hands-free kits, and not using VoIP (84.9% N = 15,088). Individuals' age and sex modified this picture, sometimes markedly. Education and smoking status were associated with ever use and call duration, but neither BMI nor handedness was. Cordless phone use was reported by 66.0% of the population, and Wi-Fi use was reported by 88.4%.

Conclusion: In this cross-sectional presentation of contemporary mobile phone usage in France, age and sex were important determinants of use patterns.

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法国 COSMOS 群体中移动电话和射频发射设备的使用情况。

COSMOS-France 是 COSMOS 项目的法国部分，该项目是一项国际前瞻性队列研究，旨在调查手机和其他无线技术的使用是否与健康影响和症状（癌症、心血管疾病、神经系统疾病、耳鸣、头痛或睡眠和情绪障碍）有关。在此，我们提供了 COSMOS-France 的首批描述性结果，这是一个嵌套于以普通人群为基础的成年人队列 "Constances "中的队列：在试点（2017 年）和主要招募阶段（2019 年），共有 39284 名康斯坦茨志愿者受邀参加 COSMOS-France 研究。参与者被要求填写关于手机使用、健康状况和个人特征的详细问卷。我们研究了手机使用（包括通话和网络电话（VoIP）使用）、无绳电话使用和 Wi-Fi 使用与年龄、性别、教育程度、吸烟状况、体重指数（BMI）和嗜好之间的关联：参与率为 48.4%，分析数据集中有 18 502 份问卷。96.1%的用户使用手机（N=17782）。用户通常每周通话 5-29 分钟（37.1%，N = 6600），每天通话 1-4 次（52.9%，N = 9408），使用一部手机（83.9%，N = 14921）且不与他人共用（80.4%，N = 14295），大多将手机放在惯用手的头侧（59.1%，N = 10300），不使用扬声器或免提套件，也不使用网络电话（84.9%，N = 15088）。个人的年龄和性别改变了这一情况，有时甚至非常明显。受教育程度和吸烟状况与是否使用过手机和通话时间长短有关，但体重指数（BMI）和手型都与之无关。66.0%的人使用无绳电话，88.4%的人使用 Wi-Fi：结论：在这项关于法国当代手机使用情况的横断面研究中，年龄和性别是决定手机使用模式的重要因素。

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