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depressive symptoms ( 19 , 20 ). The Illness Perception Questionnaire – Revised (IPQ-R) includes 38 statements to assess emotional and cognitive representations of illness spanning 7 dimensions: timeline acute/chronic (beliefs about the chronic nature of
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blood test and oral glucose tolerance test was performed and questionnaires were filled in. The Brief Illness Perceptions Questionnaire (BIPQ) ( 12 ) was used to test PCOS perception. This nine-item instrument is based on an 11 point scale (0 = no
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symptoms by physicians may explain some of the larger differences. Differences in the illness perception in different populations have been observed in different diseases and may be related not only to cultural but also to socio-economic, healthcare, and
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adhered to the local histopathological diagnosis as a reference standard, as this diagnosis determined the individual patients’ postoperative course of treatment and likely best reflects the patient’s illness perception and perceived HRQoL. For the