Table 1 Study questionnaire

ID: Initial: Sex: Age:

Blood pressure, Pulse rate, Body temperature

Japan coma scale

(1) DSM-IV diagnosis:

(2) Precedent infectious symptoms (fever/headache/throat pain/diarrhea)

(3) The first episode or the exacerbation

 3–1) How much time had passed from the onset of symptoms until receiving a medical examination?

 3–2) How long have you been under psychiatric care in the hospital?

  less than 1 month/less than 3 months/less than 1 year

  less than 5 years/less than 10 years/more than 10 years

 3–3) How many times did your symptoms exacerbate?

two/three/four/five/more than five

(4) Psychiatric symptom(s) (possible plural answers)

 a) anxiety/depression symptom

  irritation/anxiety/depressive mood/depersonalization

  sleep disorder/will drop/concentration drop/suicidal feeling

 b) mania symptom

  hyperthymia/hyperlogia/hyperactivity/flight of idea

 c) schizophrenia-like symptom

  auditory hallucination/visual hallucination/delusion/obfuscation

  excitement/echolalia/echopraxia/stereotypic language

  stereotypic movement/catalepsy/idle–autosynnoia/flattened feeling

(5) Neurological symptom(s)

 convulsions/orolingual dyskinesia/systemic dyskinesia/eyeball dyskinesia

 instability of blood pressure and pulse/sweat and drooling abnormality

 respiratory depression/disorientation/amnesia