On the memory characteristics and objective validity of disease symptoms

为了研究我们如何准确地回忆症状和我们自己的生理状态，我们比较了高负担组(急救人员)和对照组(非SIFT工作人员)在瞬间记录的症状和生理状态，以及一天结束时回忆的症状和生理状态。虽然瞬间记录和回忆的记录显著相关，但相关系数很低，一些症状的平均值和个体差异显著不同。此外，还存在一种偏差，即在控制了瞬时症状后，调度期间的一些症状被回忆为比调度以外的行为中的症状更严重。这些结果表明，对症状和生理状态的记忆是脆弱的。

In order to investigate how exactly we can recall symptoms and our own physiological states, we compared symptoms and physiological states recorded momentarily and those recalled at the end of the day in a highly-burdened group(emergency personnel) and in a control group(non-sift workers). Although momentary recordings and recordings made by recall were significantly correlated, correlation coefficients were low and means and individual variances were significantly different for some symptoms. In addition, there was a bias that some symptoms during dispatches were recalled as severer than those during behaviors other than dispatches after controlling for momentary symptoms. These results suggested the fragility of memory for symptoms and physiological states.