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].
This questionnaire comprised symptoms of vaginal discharge, general inclusion/exclusion criteria and (for those reporting vaginal discharge) items relating to common mental disorders (CMDs).
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.
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).
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].
These include a 7-item Toenail Symptom assessment, which comprises both Symptom Frequency and Symptom Bothersomeness scales; an 8-item Appearance Problems scale; a 7-item Physical Activities Problems scale; a 1-item Overall Problem scale; a 7-item Stigma scale; and a 3-item Treatment Satisfaction scale.
The first self-reported symptoms of TB are described in table 1, which comprises all symptoms mentioned by patients as initial symptoms of their current illness; no attempt was made to differentiate which symptom was the first.
The SF-36 MH subscale, which mainly comprises depressive symptoms, showed lower values (more symptoms) in patients with high fatigue (FSS > 4).
