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Psychometric Assessment of the Rett Syndrome Caregiver Assessment of Symptom Severity (RCASS)
Rett syndrome is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that affects about 1 in 10,000 females. Clinical trials of disease modifying therapies are on...
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Undergoing Lung Surgery (PSA-Lung) was appropriate for symptom assessment after discharge
PurposeTo examine whether a 7-day or 24-h recall period of Perioperative Symptom Assessment for Patients Undergoing Lung Surgery (PSA-Lung) was...
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Remote assessment of Parkinson’s disease symptom severity based on group interaction feature assistance
Telemonitoring is an effective way to assess the severity of Parkinson's disease (PD). Due to heterogeneity and small sample sizes, the multi-task...
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The Oral Symptom Assessment Scale (OSAS): criterion validation with the EORTC QLQ-OH15 and reliability testing
PurposeThe aim of this study was to investigate the criterion validity and reliability of the Oral Symptom Assessment Scale (OSAS) in patients with...
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Oral symptom assessment tools in patients with advanced cancer: a sco** review
PurposeOral symptoms are common in patients with advanced cancer. The aim of this sco** review was to identify oral symptom assessment tools that...
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A comparison of the prevalence of dry mouth and other symptoms using two different versions of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System on an inpatient palliative care unit
BackgroundSymptom assessment is key to effective symptom management and palliative care for patients with advanced cancer. Symptom prevalence and...
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The association between malnutrition risk and revised Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS-r) scores in an adult outpatient oncology population: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundCancer-associated malnutrition is associated with worse symptom severity, functional status, quality of life, and overall survival....
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Anxiety Symptom Trajectories Predict Depression Symptom Trajectories up to Four Years After CBT for Youth Anxiety Disorders
Long-term data on depression symptoms after cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for youth anxiety disorders are scant. We examined depression symptoms...
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Development and validation of the HDSIM™ assessment system: a measure of hemorrhoid disease symptom impact
BackgroundHemorrhoid disease (HD) affects 10 million people in the US at any given time, and 50% of the US population will develop symptomatic...
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Children’s emotional reactivity and negative affect predict future ADHD symptom severity beyond initial ADHD symptom severity
Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often experience significant emotion dysregulation. However, there is limited...
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Measuring symptom burden in patients with cancer during a pandemic: the MD Anderson symptom inventory for COVID-19 (MDASI-COVID)
BackgroundSymptom expression in SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) may affect patients already symptomatic with cancer. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs)...
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Symptom and Performance Validity Assessment: European Trends in Research and Practice
This is a short editorial to the special issue of Psychological Injury and Law. The first of the articles of this issue (Merten et al., Symptom and...
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Comparison of neoadjuvant versus adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer patients prior to receiving radiation therapy using Edmonton Symptom assessment system (ESAS) scores
Background and purposePatients undergoing radiotherapy (RT) for breast cancer may receive adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to the...
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On the Use of Eye Movements in Symptom Validity Assessment of Feigned Schizophrenia
Assessing the credibility of reported mental health problems is critical in a variety of assessment situations, particularly in forensic contexts....
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Symptom burden survey and symptom clusters in patients with cervical cancer: a cross-sectional survey
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to determine the incidence and severity of symptoms of patients with cervical cancer within 6 months after...
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Symptom- und Belastungsscreening mittels Patientenselbsteinschätzung (PROs)
Symptom and distress screening using patient reported outcomes (PROs) is becoming increasingly relevant for diagnostic- and treatment planning,...
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Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a promising non-invasive biomarker for symptom assessment and diagnosis of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome
BackgroundOur study aims to investigate the association between the serum neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and interstitial cystitis (IC), as...
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Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
This chapter introduces the group of Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders (SSRD) that share one common feature: persistent somatic symptoms. Somatic...
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Develo** a fit-for-purpose composite symptom score as a symptom burden endpoint for clinical trials in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma
We developed a composite symptom score (CSS) representing disease-related symptom burden over time in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma...
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Discordance between Adolescents and Parents in Functional Somatic Symptom Reports: Sex Differences and Future Symptom Prevalence
Functional somatic symptoms, i.e., physical complaints that cannot be sufficiently explained by an objectifiable biomedical abnormality, become...
