What are the results of the Nijmegen Questionnaire?
What are the results of the Nijmegen Questionnaire?
Nijmegen Questionnaire . A score of over 23 out of 64 suggest a positive diagnosis of hyperventilation syndrome.
How is the Nijmegen Questionnaire used to screen for hyperventilation syndrome?
The Nijmegen questionnaire is used to screen patients with dysfunctional breathing such as hyperventilation syndrome. There are 16 items (related to symptoms of hyperventilation syndrome) to be answered on a 5-point scale ranging from ‘never’ (0) to ‘very often’ (4).
How is the Nijmegen Questionnaire related to panic disorder?
Inspection of the 16 items of the Nijmegen Questionnaire indicates that the sum score is related to stress, respiration and anxiety. They overlap with symptoms of panic disorder but only a subgroup of patients with high scores on the Nijmegen Questionnaire have been actually diagnosed as having panic disorder [7].
Can a high Nijmegen score indicate a specific syndrome?
Thus, a high Nijmegen Questionnaire score does not indicate a specific syndrome. Both studies basically offer evidence that an elevated Nijmegen Questionnaire score is “abnormal”.
Is the Nijmegen Questionnaire related to hyperventilation syndrome?
In later studies, the correlation between Nijmegen Questionnaire scores and carbon dioxide tensions appeared highly variable. The diagnosis of hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) was questioned and slowly disappeared.
Inspection of the 16 items of the Nijmegen Questionnaire indicates that the sum score is related to stress, respiration and anxiety. They overlap with symptoms of panic disorder but only a subgroup of patients with high scores on the Nijmegen Questionnaire have been actually diagnosed as having panic disorder [ 7 ].
Figure 1 shows that the hyperventilators score equally highly on the Nijmegen Questionnaire in both studies but the controls were patients in the first study (Nijmegen Questionnaire score 19.5±10.5) and normal subjects in the second (Nijmegen Questionnaire score 11.9±5.5).
