Symptoms and health status in individuals with multiple chemical sensitivities syndrome from four reported sensitizing exposures and a general population comparison group.
Symptoms and health status in individuals with multiple chemical sensitivities syndrome from four reported sensitizing exposures and a general population comparison group.
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来自四种报告的致敏暴露和一般人群对照组的多种化学过敏综合症个体的症状和健康状况。
DOI：
10.1080/00039896.1996.9936017
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1996
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Keyl,PM
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作者：
Davidoff,AL;Keyl,PM
通过电话访谈收集了关于健康和心理健康状况以及病史的自我报告信息：（a）报告多种化学物质敏感综合征的三个不同个体样本（n= 60）和（B）一般人群样本（n= 60）。受试者从普通人群中随机选择的电话簿，并匹配的年龄，性别和社会经济地位的索引主题。另外10名患有多种化学物质敏感综合征的受试者的数据也可用于对许多感兴趣的变量进行比较。四组不同的多化学物质敏感综合征患者的疾病和化学物质敏感性的一般和具体指标非常相似。一般人群中的成员报告对化学品轻度敏感，甚至那些更敏感的人在报告的症状数量和类型，反应的持续时间和频率以及相关特征方面与多重化学品敏感综合征组不同。多化学物质敏感综合征始终与只有一个精神变量，升高的负性情感评分，这与疾病的存在显着相关。来自不同样本的多重化学敏感综合征患者具有非常相似的特征，无论他们是否接受过临床生态学家的治疗。
Self-reported information about health and mental health status and history on (a) three diverse samples of individuals who reported multiple chemical sensitivities syndrome (n= 60) and (b) one sample of the general population (n= 60) was collected by telephone interview. Subjects from the general population were selected randomly from the telephone directory and were matched for age, gender, and socioeconomic status with index subjects. Data on an additional 10 subjects with multiple chemical sensitivities syndrome were also available for comparison on many of the variables of interest. The four diverse groups of patients with multiple chemical sensitivities syndrome had very similar general and specific indices of illness and sensitivity to chemicals. Members of the general population reported mild sensitivity to chemicals, and even those with more sensitivity differed from the multiple chemical sensitivities syndrome groups with respect to number and types of symptoms reported, duration and frequency of response, and associated features. Multiple chemical sensitivities syndrome was associated consistently with only one psychiatric variable, elevated negative affect scores, which were correlated significantly with the presence of illness. Patients with multiple chemical sensitivities syndrome from the diverse samples had very similar characteristic features, despite whether they had or had not received treatment by clinical ecologists.