Application of the Postconcussive Syndrome Questionnaire with medical and psychiatric outpatients

The Postconcussive Syndrome Questionnaire (PCSO; Lees-Haley, 1992) was previously found (Axel rod, Fox, Lees-Haley, Earnest, Dolezal-Wood, & Goldman, 1996) to produce four factors, named Psychological, Somatic, Cognitive, and Infrequency. These four factors of the questionnaire weve 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 io a health maintenance organization. Mental health patients had patients psychological symptoms and fewer health concerns than the other groups. Neurology patients differed om 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 rile 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. (C) 1998 National Academy of Neuropsychology. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.