Regarding this:
Not everyone uses this questionnaire in this way. I recall a study which used it to measure physical symptoms (rather than a measure of awareness of symptoms):
Also, Long Term Improvements in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Treated with Ampligen", used 18 questions from the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) including some from this subscale to measure CFS symptoms.
What Figure 2 shows is that the therapy didn't improve the scores.
They describe that as "not changing focus on symptoms" but others might interpret that as not improving those symptoms.
Focus on symptoms: We used the somatic complaints subscale of the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) (Arindell & Ettema, 1986) to assess focusing on symptoms. Following Vercoulen et al. (1998), higher scores on this scale indicate a stronger focus on symptoms.
Not everyone uses this questionnaire in this way. I recall a study which used it to measure physical symptoms (rather than a measure of awareness of symptoms):
Functional incapacity and physical and psychological symptoms: how they interconnect in chronic fatigue syndrome.
Psychopathology. 2008;41(6):339-45. doi: 10.1159/000152375. Epub 2008 Sep 3.
Priebe S, Fakhoury WK, Henningsen P.
Source
Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts' and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. s.priebe@qmul.ac.uk
Also, Long Term Improvements in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Treated with Ampligen", used 18 questions from the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) including some from this subscale to measure CFS symptoms.
In the previous week, how much were you bothered by:
1. Headaches
4. Faintness or dizziness
12. Pains in heart or chest
27. Pains in lower back
40. Nausea or upset stomach
42. Soreness of your muscles
48. Trouble getting your breath
49. Hot or cold spells
52. Numbness or tingling in parts of your body
53. A lump in your throat
56. Feeling weak in parts of your body
58. Heavy feelings in your arms or legs
EXTREMELY
QUITE A BIT
MODERATELY
A LITTLE BIT
NOT AT ALL
What Figure 2 shows is that the therapy didn't improve the scores.
They describe that as "not changing focus on symptoms" but others might interpret that as not improving those symptoms.