Reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the Japanese version of International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group rating scale for restless legs syndrome in a clinical trial setting

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 412-419

  Inoue, Yuichi ^a,b   Oka, Yasunori ^d   Kagimura, Tatsuo ^c   Kuroda, Kenji ^e   Hirata, Koichi ^f  

^a NEUROPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIPPON BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM CO LTD   (Japan)

^d EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Hannan Hospital   (Japan)

^f DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japanese version of International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group rating scale for restless legs syndrome; Japanese version of Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; reliability; restless legs syndrome; validity

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PRAMIPEXOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERNATIONAL RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME STUDY GROUP RATING SCALE; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

JAPANESE VERSION OF INTERNATIONAL RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME STUDY GROUP RATING SCALE FOR RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; JAPANESE VERSION OF PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; RELIABILITY; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BENZOTHIAZOLES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883446860     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pcn.12074     Document Type: Article

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