Open AccessApplication of the Postconcussive Syndrome Questionnaire with Medical and Psychiatric Outpatients
Author(s) -
Bradley N. Axelrod,
David Fox,
Paul R. Lees–Haley,
Karen Earnest,
Sharon Dolezal-Wood
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
archives of clinical neuropsychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1873-5843
pISSN - 0887-6177
DOI - 10.1016/s0887-6177(97)00044-9
Subject(s) - post concussion syndrome , psychiatry , neurology , mental health , medicine , cognition , presentation (obstetrics) , family medicine , psychology , poison control , injury prevention , concussion , medical emergency , radiology
The Postconcussive Syndrome Questionnaire (PCSQ; Lees-Haley, 1992 ) was previously found (Axelrod, Fox, Lees-Haley, Earnest, Dolezal-Wood, & Goldman, 1996) to produce four factors, named Psychological, Somatic, Cognitive, and Infrequency. These four factors of the questionnaire were evaluated across five groups of medical and psychiatric outpatients. The patients were from neurology, mental health, family practice, and internal medicine clinics as well as from a clinic that evaluated new patients to a health maintenance organization. Mental health patients had greater psychological symptoms and fewer health concerns than the other groups. Neurology patients differed from the other groups by having greater Infrequency symptoms. Patients who were referred for their screening evaluation or were seen by internal medicine had fewer overall symptoms than the other three patient groups. The data from this study provide support for the use of the PCSQ as a multifactorial self-report measure of symptom presentation.