Objective. Sleep disturbances are common in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). This study investigates the impact of CTS on sleep quality and clarifies the magnitude of this relationship. Methods. This is a prospective investigation of patients with CTS. Patients responded to the Levine-Katz Carpal Tunnel and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaires to assess symptom se...

PURPOSE We validated a new 7-item overactive bladder symptom score. MATERIALS AND METHODS Normal subjects and consecutive patients with lower urinary tract symptoms with or without overactive bladder were recruited and classified into 3 groups based on their response to the question on an intake questionnaire, "Do you ever experience a sudden urge to urinate that makes you want to stop what y...

objective: the present study aimed to clarify dissociative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia and its association with negative and positive symptom of schizophrenia. methods: based on the 4th edition of diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-iv) criteria, 80 schizophrenic subjects were randomly selected from patients who referred to the clinics of psychiatry hospital i...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the prevalence of negative symptoms in antipsychotic-treated outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. METHOD A cross-sectional, retrospective multicenter study was carried out between May 2004 and April 2005 in 1,704 adult psychiatric outpatients meeting DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia, schizophreniform, or schizoaffective disorder. We used 5 items of the Posi...

BACKGROUND Symptom and pulmonary function measures of asthma severity are used for severity classification in practice guidelines. However, there is limited methodological evidence in support of their validity and utility. AIM To validate initial symptom and forced expiratory volume (FEV1) measures of asthma severity with the subsequent risks of exacerbations resulting in emergency room (ER) ...

OBJECTIVE Breast cancer significantly influences the quality of life (QoL) in women. The aim of this study was to assess the QoL in breast cancer patients and to determine the factors that have an effect on the QoL. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used sociodemographic data questionnaire, European Cancer Research and Treatment Organization QLQ-C30 questionnaire and linear regression analysis to dete...

Using network analysis, we compared the BDI-II symptom groupings (i.e., communities), ability of individual symptoms to associate with others centrality), global strength these associations, and bridge that connect communities in a sample 279 depression patients (Mage = 49.9, SDage 11.2) non-clinical 327 students (BDI-II score less than 19, Mage 21.05, 1.82). The showed higher density, three co...

PURPOSE To investigate the association of dry eye disease with sleep quality. METHODS In 2011, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among all the employees, mainly young and middle-aged Japanese office workers, who used visual display technology, at a company in Osaka, Japan (N=672; age range =26-64 years). The participants were classified according to the Japanese dry eye diagnosis criteri...

Abstract Background Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a common cardiovascular autonomic disorder characterized by excessive heart rate increase on standing and symptoms of intolerance, posing significant limitations functional capacity. No objective tool exists to classify symptom burden in POTS. Methods We conducted case-control study 62 POTS patients 50 healthy controls comp...