Questionnaire for the detection of autoimmune associated symptoms and factors

Abstract

In the study “Familiäre Häufing von Depressionen und Psychosen: eine biographisch medizinische Detailanalyse von autoimmunen und infektiösen Faktoren in einer Familie“ (Familial accumulation of Depression and Psychosis: a biographical medical analysis in Detail of autoimmune and infectious factors in a family) by A. Mack (2017), we designed, tested and applied a new kind of questionnaire to detect early and subclinical signs of autoimmunity in patients with psychiatric diseases and a possible underlying autoimmune disease. Further we constructed and added questions to detect environmental factors, such as infections, toxins and genetic accumulation of psychiatric and autoimmune diseases and embedded these in a self-editable catalogue of questions, similarly structured to a physicians anamnesis. This Questionnaire called “Fragebogen zur Erkennung von autoimmunassoziierten Symptomen und Faktoren“ (Questionnaire for the detection of autoimmune associated symptoms and factors) is now translated in English and published as a supplement.