A systematic review was conducted to examine traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) patterns commonly diagnosed in subjects with insomnia and clinical features associated with the TCM patterns, and an insomnia symptom checklist for TCM diagnostic purpose was developed based on the review. Two independent researchers searched the China Academic Journals Full-Text Database and 10 English databases. A...

Recent acceptance that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) represents a heterogeneous phenomenon has underscored the need for dimensional approaches to this disorder. However little is known about the relation between neuropsychological functions and symptom dimensions. The purpose of this study was to identify the cognitive deficits correlated with specific symptom dimensions. Thirteen categor...

OBJECTIVE Obesity is a complex condition associated with a host of medical disorders. One common assumption is that obesity is also related to psychological and emotional complications. However, some studies have shown that obesity itself does not appear to be systematically associated with psychopathological outcomes.The objective of the present study was to evaluate the impact that the variou...

BACKGROUND Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are critical in the evaluation of treatment effectiveness. The National Kidney Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Study (NKDKTS) symptom checklist was developed in the 1980s as a means to better understand the relationships amongst end-stage renal disease (ESRD), anaemia symptoms and multiple quality of life indicators. Unfortunately, key components ...

BACKGROUND A graded symptom checklist is a commonly used concussion evaluation measure. Little is known about preseason baseline symptomatology of high school and college athletes with and without a previous concussion history. HYPOTHESIS The primary hypothesis investigated was that those individuals with a concussion history would report more symptoms at baseline testing. The effects of sex ...

Therapy-related symptom checklist for children (TRSC-C) was developed as a symptom assessment tool in children receiving chemotherapy. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of TRSC-C. This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013-2014 in Tehran, Iran. TRSC-C was translated using backward-forward approach. The content validity, ...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients experience impaired response inhibition. Little is known about the relationship between response inhibition abnormalities and distinct PTSD symptom clusters. This study investigated the relationship between response inhibition processing and a five-factor model of posttraumatic stress symptomatology in adolescents. The event-related potentials of 54...

BACKGROUND Current guidelines recommend routine assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). However, physicians rarely have the time to measure HRQOL with the appropriate methodological rigor, and data suggest that HRQOL in patients with IBS is often estimated using inaccurate clinical gestalt. The identification of predictive factors co...

BACKGROUND Measures reflecting quality of life (QoL) or symptom control should be included as major endpoints in most phase III trials for patients with advanced cancer. Here we review the use of such endpoints. METHODS We evaluated methodological aspects relating to QoL or symptom control in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that included >or=150 patients, published from 1994 to 2004, usin...