Bilateral Single-Port Sympathectomy: Long-Term Results and Quality of Life

Table 2

Quality of life questionnaire (administered preoperatively and postoperatively).

Generally speaking, how would you rate your quality of life currently?
L: excellent 2: very good 3: good 4: poor/inferior 5: very poor
Using the same scale as above (1–5), how would you rate the following activities currently?
Writing	1	2	3	4	5
Manual work	1	2	3	4	5
Leisure	1	2	3	4	5
Sports	1	2	3	4	5
Hand shaking	1	2	3	4	5
Socializing	1	2	3	4	5
Grasping objects	1	2	3	4	5
Social dancing	1	2	3	4	5
Personal domain: with partner/spouse, how would you rate your quality of life?
Holding hands	1	2	3	4	5
Intimate touching	1	2	3	4	5
Intimate affairs	1	2	3	4	5
Emotional self/others: how would you rate the fact that after sweating excessively?
I have always justified myself	1	2	3	4	5
People rejected me slightly	1	2	3	4	5
Under special circumstances: how would you rate the quality of your life?
In a closed or hot environment	1	2	3	4	5
When tense or worried	1	2	3	4	5
Thinking about the problem	1	2	3	4	5
Before a test, meeting, or public speaking	1	2	3	4	5
Wearing sandals/barefoot	1	2	3	4	5
Wearing colored clothing	1	2	3	4	5
Having problems at school/work	1	2	3	4	5