It also comprises symptoms of melancholia and atypical depression and has scaling items allowing for detection of milder levels of symptoms.
3 Androgen deficiency is a clinical syndrome complex that comprises symptoms and signs in conjunction with biochemical evidence of testosterone deficiency.
The overactive bladder syndrome comprises symptoms of urinary urgency, with or without urinary frequency and nocturia, in the presence or absence of urgency urinary incontinence [ 6].
The survey instrument employed health-state descriptions based on the Quality of Well Being (QWB) index [ 31, 32], with attributes comprising symptoms, motor function, and ability to fulfill roles and expectations.
The first factor (16 items), comprising symptoms related to depressed mood with somatic complaints, yielded a very high value of 0.90 and item-total-correlations were satisfying from 0.30-0.75, yet again the item 19 that already showed a low factor loading also showed a very weak correlation with its scale of 0.13.
Pelvic symptoms comprised prolapse symptoms, defecation and/or micturition symptoms and were measured in all subjects using a disease-specific symptom questionnaire, which was based on the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI), Incontinence Impact Questionnaires (IIQ) and Defecation Distress Inventory (DDI) items [ 12, 13].
The syndrome criteria of 'qi deficiency and blood stasis' and 'qi stagnation and blood stasis' are based on the basic components of the symptom combination; each combination comprises primary symptoms and secondary symptoms (primary symptoms are fixed, secondary symptoms are decided by the patients themselves).
The mean PANSS scores for the HR group comprised positive symptoms (13.1, SD = 3.2), negative symptoms (12.4, SD = 5.0) and general psychopathology (32.7, SD = 7.0).
The main symptoms associated with meningitis are depicted in Table 2 and comprised functional symptoms like headache, asthenia, and insomnia in at least 50% of the exposed subjects.
The symptom scales were derived from the EHQ (Eltiti et al. 2007b) and comprised 57 symptoms on a 5-point scale ("not at all" to "a great deal"); participants were required to select how much they were suffering from each symptom.
