@article {738,
	title = {Environmental discomfort and geomagnetic field influence on psychological mood in Athens, Greece},
	journal = {Indoor and Built Environment},
	volume = {15},
	number = {4},
	year = {2006},
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	pages = {365-372},
	abstract = {A multivariate analysis of 4797 cases of patients who were cured of their psychological symptoms and their notes filed by the psychiatric clinic of the Eginition Hospital in Athens, during the year 1994, has been done. The results of this analysis imply significant contribution of environmental variations, expressed by a discomfort index, in the aggravation of psychological symptoms like depression, sleep disturbances, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Moreover, geomagnetic field variations expressed by the international geomagnetic index (DST) manifest significant indications that they contribute to the aggravation of sleep disturbances. A clear seasonal variation, with a maximum around August and a minimum at the end of the year, appears in the environmental index, while a double oscillation with a period of about six months is obvious in the geomagnetic index. The same more or less seasonal variation was mirrored in most of the psychological symptoms we analysed in the present study. Β{\textcopyright} 2006 SAGE Publications.},
	keywords = {Adult, Aged, Aggression, anxiety, article, Athens, controlled study, Depression, Discomfort, environmental factor, environmental impact, Female, Generalised linear models, Geomagnetism, Greece, human, magnetic field, Male, mental disease, mood, Multivariate Analysis, panic, priority journal, Psychological symptoms, seasonal variation, sleep disorder},
	isbn = {1420326X (ISSN)},
	author = {Nastos, P. T. and Paliatsos, A. G. and Tritakis, V. P. and Bergiannaki, A.}
}
