The adaptation for Italy of the questionnaire on autonomic regulation: an innovative tool for conventional and CAM health professionals and patients' self-awareness : preliminary results of a patients' self-administered version

Questionnaires on autonomic regulation (aR-Q) were developed by anthroposophic medicine (AM) at FIH, Berlin. In particular, an 18 item trait scale has been studied both in healthy people and ill patients, to evaluate the constitutional background and to introduce in medicine a salutogenetic-based practical measure. AR-Q focuses on the regulation and rhythms of autonomic functions to access individual complexity, according to AM, which depicts human beings as integrated systems of physical, living, psychic and spiritual levels. The study aims to define the process of translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the aR-Q into Italian in order to obtain a patients' self-administered version. The Italian version for health professionals will follow.