TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of subjective symptoms of Japanese patients with multiple chemical sensitivity using QEESI
AU - Hojo, Sachiko
AU - Sakabe, Kou
AU - Ishikawa, Satoshi
AU - Miyata, Mikio
AU - Kumano, Hiroaki
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to Prof. Yoshiharu Aizawa for his valuable assistance. This study was supported in part by grants-in-aid for scientific research (Hojo C 19510074), JSPS, Japan and a grant-in-aid for scientific research subsidized by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare and by the Long-range Research Initiative of the Japan Chemical Industry Association.
Funding Information:
This study was approved by the Human Ethics Committee of the Environmental Medical Center of Kitasato Institute Hospital, and all participants gave written informed consent. No individual names or other data allowing identification of participants were included in the database.
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - Objectives The Quick Environment Exposure Sensitivity Inventory (QEESI) has been used as a questionnaire to evaluate subjective symptoms of patients with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), also known as idiopathic environmental intolerance, in Japan. However, no cutoff value for Japanese subjects has yet been established. We designed this study to establish a cutoff value for Japanese subjects using QEESI(
AB - Objectives The Quick Environment Exposure Sensitivity Inventory (QEESI) has been used as a questionnaire to evaluate subjective symptoms of patients with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), also known as idiopathic environmental intolerance, in Japan. However, no cutoff value for Japanese subjects has yet been established. We designed this study to establish a cutoff value for Japanese subjects using QEESI(
KW - Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI)
KW - Logistic regression analysis
KW - Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS)
KW - Quick Environment Exposure Sensitivity Inventory (QEESI)
KW - Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis
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U2 - 10.1007/s12199-009-0095-8
DO - 10.1007/s12199-009-0095-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 19603254
AN - SCOPUS:77249173779
VL - 14
SP - 267
EP - 275
JO - Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
JF - Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
SN - 1342-078X
IS - 5
ER -