LI-REN CHANG2018-09-102018-09-102014http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84919467618&partnerID=MN8TOARShttp://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/389146Background: Phantom vibration syndrome (PVS) and phantom ringing syndrome (PRS) occur in many cell phone users. Previous studies have indicated an association between PVS/PRS and job stress. The aim of this study was to determine if PVS/PRS were also associated with occupational burnout.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 384 employees of a high-tech company in northern Taiwan. They all completed a phantom vibration and ringing questionnaire, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and the Chinese version of the Occupational Burnout Inventory.Results: Significantly more women and people with at least a college education were in the population with PRS and PVS, respectively. Anxiety and depression had no associations with PVS/PRS. Higher scores for personal fatigue, job fatigue, and service target fatigue had an independent impact on the presence of PVS, but only a higher score for service target fatigue had an independent impact on the presence of PRS.Conclusion: The independent association between work-related burnout and PVS/PRS suggests that PVS/PRS may be a harbinger of mental stress or a component of the clinical burnout syndrome, and may even be a more convenient and accurate predictor of occupational burnout. ? 2014 Chen et al.Occupational burnout; Phantom ringing syndrome; Phantom vibration syndrome[SDGs]SDG3adult; anxiety; Article; burnout; Chinese version of the Occupational Burnout Inventory; college; controlled study; correlation coefficient; cross-sectional study; depression; disease association; education; educational status; fatigue; female; Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; human; job fatigue; major clinical study; male; occupational disease; personal fatigue; phantom ringing syndrome; phantom vibration syndrome; questionnaire; rating scale; scoring system; sensory dysfunction; service target fatigue; sex difference; Taiwan; technology; vibration sense; working timePossible association between phantom vibration syndrome and occupational burnoutjournal article10.2147/NDT.S73038