Kelsey Rook
The Psychometric Ontology of Experience and Measures provides an ontology of domain concepts for the measurement of symptoms and syndromes related to psychiatric conditions.
2023-11-20
Psychometric Ontology of Experience and Measures
http://purl.org/ontology/POEM
Psychometric Ontology of Experience and Measures (POEM)
core#notation
can be experienced as
can respond to
detects
estimates condition
has possible respondent
has scale
has subscale
has symptom
has target
indicates experience
is about condition
is detected by
is experience of
is indicated by
is scale in
is subject of scale
is subscale of
is symptom of
1
composite scale
2
condition
an entity typically representing an elevation on a syndrome
disorder
a disease entity typically representing a non-normative elevation on a syndrome in conjuction with marked distress or impairment
psychometric questionnaire
questionnaire scale
a collection of indicators designed to be related to a shared construct
1
symptom
a type of behavior, emotion, or thought that is indicative of a syndrome (or a disorder, indirectly)
1
symptom experience
1
syndrome scale
a sufficient set of co-occuring symptoms believed to represent an underlying phenomenon with dimensional properties
fear of death
psychomotor retardation
persistent sadness
compulsive behavior
separation anxiety
obsessive compulsive disorder
anxiety disorder
generalized anxiety disorder
intrusive thoughts
fear of being left alone
No more specific mapping in SNOMED exists to symptom "worry about future"
pessimistic
anxiety about behaviour or performance
fear of appearing ridiculous
fear of public speaking
self-depreciation
altered appetite
social phobia
anhedonia
depressive disorder
major depressive disorder
panic disorder
More appropriate SNOMED mapping does not exist to cover abdominal discomfort/nausea as caused by anxiety
abdominal discomfort
psychomotor agitation
disturbance in sleep behavior
incoherent thinking
No more specific mapping to symptom "worry about future panic attacks" in SNOMED
No more specific mapping to symptom "worry about sleep/reluctance to sleep" in SNOMED
worry
panic
fatigue