電磁波敏感症指的是與電磁場暴露所產生的相關健康效應，這些健康效應的有關症狀被世界衛生組織正式命名為 “idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields” (IEI-EMF)。由於行動電話的逐年增加及廣泛使用，電磁波敏感症成為全球所關注的健康議題。
台灣在2007年所做的全國性的電磁波敏感症盛行率調查，盛行率為13.3%，是當時世界各國中最高的。接著，在2012年，我們以同樣的研究方法對台灣進行第二次的全國盛行率調查，發現電磁波敏感症盛行率下降到4.6% ，同時，透過全球的文獻收集及整理，我們也發現全球的電磁波敏感症盛行率一樣呈現下降趨勢。
由於媒體報導的內容可能誘使讀者將他們所經歷的症狀歸因於電磁場的暴露，因此，我們從『新聞知識庫』搜尋與電磁波相關的新聞報導，評估其與電磁波敏感症盛行率間的關聯性。我們的發現，與電磁波相關新聞報導的數量，在2005年到2007年間逐年增加，而在2007年之後到2012年間逐年下降，這個變化趨勢與電磁波敏感症盛行率的變化一致。我們也評估其他可能影響盛行率的潛在因子，例如行動電話基地台的密度、行動電話門號數、行動電話通話量，以及簡訊發話數量，這些潛在影響因子呈現逐年增加的趨勢。
由於大環境電磁場暴露的研究結果，不適合用來推論個人的電磁場暴露。因此，我們以雙盲激發試驗來評估個人的生理狀態，例如血壓以及心率變異，是否受到電磁場暴露的影響，並檢測電磁波敏感症者，是否能感受到電磁波有無激發。在我們的研究中，58位電磁波敏感症者，以及92位健康者，參與此激發試驗，接受類似手機基地台電磁波的暴露。兩組之血壓及心率變異，未因電磁波的激發而改變，此外，電磁波敏感症者以及健康對照者皆無法正確判斷電磁波是否有無激發。我們的研究結果顯示短暫的類基地台電磁波暴露不會造成受試者的血壓及心率變異的變化，受試者無法正確辨明電磁波是否激發。
總結來說，我們的研究結果支持電磁波的風險認知會受媒體報導的影響之假說，而短時間的電磁波暴露不會影響血壓及心率變異。

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity refers to health effects attributed to electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure. These symptoms have been officially named “idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields” (IEI-EMF) by the World Health Organization. Because of the growing use of cell phones, IEI-EMF has become a global public health concern.
A nationwide telephone survey in 2007 in Taiwan showed that the prevalence rate of IEI-EMF was 13.3%, which is higher than rates in previous studies. We conducted a survey using the same method, and found that the rate had declined to 4.6% in 2012. We also found a declining global prevalence in our literature review.
Because media reports may encourage readers to attribute their symptoms to EMF, this change might be related to media coverage. We searched for articles indexed in the largest newspaper database in Taiwan to evaluate the association between media coverage and the prevalence of IEI-EMF. The number of newspaper articles related to EMF and IEI-EMF increased from 2005 to 2007 and then has been decreasing until 2012, which is compatible with the change in the prevalence of IEI-EMF. We also assessed the effects of other potential affecting factors, such as the density of mobile phone base stations, the number of mobile phone users, total mobile phone calling time, and the number of text messages sent through mobile phones. We found that all of these potential factors increased in Taiwan from 2007 to 2012.
The result of an environmental EMF exposure study cannot be used to explain the condition of individual exposure. Therefore, we conducted a double-blind provocation study to test whether EMF exposure affects blood pressure (BP) and heart rate variation (HRV), and to verify whether IEI-EMF sufferers are able to accurately discriminate between sham and real EMF exposures. 58 self-reported IEI-EMF sufferers and 92 controls were exposed to base station-like signal in a double-blind and randomized experimental procedure. The BP and HRV of individuals in both groups remained unaffected by EMF exposure. Neither the IEI-EMF group nor controls could accurately identify the provocation status of their sessions. Our study indicated that short-term mobile phone signal exposure does not affect BP and HRV and that none of the participants could accurately detect EMF exposure.
In conclusion, the results of our study support the hypotheses that risk perception of EMF might be affected by media reports, and that exposure to short-term, low intensity, base station-like EMF does not affect BP and HRV.

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