Results
Pain
SENSITIVITY
Forty subjects (20 women, 20 men) between 19 and 65 years participated in the study. About two thirds of the participants were employees of our institute (IPA) and worked in the office or laboratory. The other subjects were external with different professions, but they all did light office/computer work at our institute during the 4-h workplace examinations. The study participants were moderately to well trained and the proportion of well-trained subjects was similar for men and women (Table Characteristics of the study participants and numbers of “sensitive” subjects according to the different sensitivity scales.The cut-offs of PWCSensitivity scales: Environmental Worry Scale (EWS), Discomfort Intolerance Scale (DIS), Intolerance of Discomfort or Pain (DIS-I), Avoidance of Physical Discomfort (DIS-A), Negative Affectivity (PANAS-NA), Chemical Odor Sensitivity Scale (COSS), Chemical Sensitivity Scale (CSS).