Rivermead Post Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire

The Rivermead Post Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire, abbreviated RPQ, is a questionnaire that can be administered to someone who sustains a concussion or other form of traumatic brain injury to measure the severity of symptoms. Used to determine the presence and severity of post-concussion syndrome (PCS), the measure has been cited in over 40 papers.cite journal |author=Potter S, Leigh E, Wade D, Fleminger S |title=The Rivermead Post Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire: A confirmatory factor analysis |journal=J. Neurol. |volume=253 |issue=12 |pages=1603–14 |year=2006 |month=December |pmid=17063314 |doi=10.1007/s00415-006-0275-z |url=] The test, which can be self-administered or given by an interviewer, asks patients to rate the severity of 16 different symptoms commonly found after a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI).cite journal |author=Mittenberg W, Strauman S |title=Diagnosis of mild head injury and the postconcussion syndrome |journal=Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=783–791 |year=2000 |pmid=10739967 |doi=] Patients are asked to rate how severe each of the 16 symptoms has been over the past 24 hours on a scale from 0 to 4: absent, mild, moderate, or severe. In each case, the symptom is compared with how severe it was before the injury occurred. The test was presented in 1995 by a group led by N.S. King.cite journal |author=King NS, Crawford S, Wenden FJ, Moss NE, Wade DT |title=The Rivermead Post Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire: A measure of symptoms commonly experienced after head injury and its reliability |journal=J. Neurol. |volume=242 |issue=9 |pages=587–92 |year=1995 |month=September |pmid=8551320 |doi= |url=]

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