Self-reported symptoms

Food allergy is common in the general population and depending on the study its prevalence varies between 2 and 4% [15]. The rates are much higher if self-reported symptoms are accounted. Food allergy is more frequent in children than in adults... 

Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SCL-90) 19. Wittenbom Psychiatric Rating Scale (WITT) X X... 

Hopkins Symptom Checklist. The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL) is a scale that has been used to measure the presence and intensity of various symptoms in outpatient neurotic patients. It is a 58-item self-rating scale and has generally been replaced by the Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SCL-90). It measures the symptoms during the past week and requires approximately 20 minutes to complete. There are five subtests somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, and anxiety. 

Self-Report Symptom Inventory. Each of the 90 items in the SCL-90 uses a five-point scale of distress. It was designed as a general measure of symptomatology for use by adult psychiatric outpatients in either a research or clinical setting. It rates either the present or previous week. It requires about 15 minutes for the patient to complete this form and about 5 minutes for a technician to verify identifying information. This test is sensitive to drug effects and may be used with inpatients. Nine subscales are measured somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, anger-hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism. 

No serious adverse effects on respiratory health as determined by self-reported symptoms and spirometry were found in current employees at three bauxite mines in Australia. ... 

Table 2 Self-reported symptoms after withdrawal of chronic phencyclidine in 68 users...

McCauley, L.A., Joos, S.K., Lasarev, M.R., Storzbach, D., Bourdette, D.N. (1999). Gulf War unexplained illnesses persistence and unexplained nature of self-reported symptoms. Environ. Res. 81(3) 215-23. 

Duhme H, Weiland SK, Keil U, et al The association between self-reported symptoms of asthma and allergic rhinitis and self-reported traffic density on street of residence in adolescents. Epidemiology 1996 7 578-582. 

Significantly, all these studies, including our own, are limited by the use of self-report measures. Self-reported symptoms are not, of course, a good guide to findings on clinical examination (McCauley et al., 1999). High rates of reported symptoms do not necessarily reflect high rates of physical disorder. Indeed, if that were the case it would contradict a considerable body of literature on the nature of somatic symptoms in the community. 

Gray G, Reed R, Kaiser K et al. (2002). Self reported symptoms and medical conditions among 11,868 Gulf War Era veterans. Am J Epidem, 155, 1033-1044. 

Knoke J, Smith TC, Gray G et al (2000). Factor analysis of self reported symptoms Does it identify a Gulf War Syndrome Am J Epidem, 152,379-388. 

Proctor S, Heeren T, White R et al. (1998). Health status of Persian Gulf War veterans self-reported symptoms, environmental exposures, and the effect of stress. Int J Epidemiol, 27, 1000-1010. 

Risk Factor Questionnaire. Each subject volunteer completed a series of questions designed to assess self-reported symptoms, and exposure to potentially confounding factors, such as alcohol and tobacco. Questions regarding hobbies and work-shift history were also addressed. Subjects also completed a series of standardized questions from a copyrighted questionnaire termed the SF-36. Both questionnaires were administered electronically after completion of the GASH/BARS. 

It is possible that high rates of self-reported symptoms may be due to stress or greater symptom recall. For example, there are reports that elevated symptom reporting rates have continued despite interim remediation or closures of the landfill sites. It is often not clear whether subjective symptoms are the result of a direct toxicological effect, stress, such as environmental or odour worry, or increased symptom perception and recall. 

As regards the relationship between labour activity and the self-reported symptoms previously mentioned, it was found that workers mostly associated activities such as lifting and moving costumers, weighing between 70 kg to 90 kg and above 90 kg, connected to totally related to symptoms . With a rate of very related to symptoms , workers associated arm movement above shoulder height and repeatability of arm movements. 

The results of self-reported symptoms, prevails in the lumbar area (86.0%), dorsal region (82.6%), neck (66.3%), shoulders (64.0%) and wrist/hands (61.0%). As for work-related absenteeism it prevailed the shoulder region (8.1%) and the intensity index very intense (30.2%) in the lumbar region. 

Higgs et al, (1993) described the age influence on the frames of MSDs, remembering the importance of this factor in the pathogenesis of some degenerative musculoskelet pathologies (Higgs et al., 1993). The number of work-related MSD complaints increases with age. At the age of 55-64 the number of self-reported symptoms is 1.7 times higher than at the age of 25-34 years. 

Tate, CM., Wang, K.K., Eonta, S., et al., 2013. Serum brain biomarker level, neurocognitive performance, and self-reported symptom changes in soldiers repeatedly exposed to low-level blast a breacher pilot study. J. Neurotrauma... 

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