Competency questions

Transformation of the story into competency questions

Being aware now that Alexithymia is a condition characterized by difficulties identifying and describing one's own emotions, before building the competency questions in order to retreive specific information about it, we analyzed the article thinking what was being told there.

The main events characterizing the article were the investigations made in order to bring more evidence regarding the condition and how it works, which methods were used and what are the results coming from it. What is the relation of this condition with typical individuals and a clinical population and how they’re all affected.

How also alexithymia can be connected to several clinical conditions and which parts od the body are influenced on that. And finally the references work used as well as results.
All of that can be explained further with the competency questions.

Informal Competency Questions

We have then formulated a list of the natural language competency questions

• 1. Retrieve all the statistical tests used for the analysis of the questionnaires.


• 2. What are the clinical disorders mentioned in the article.


• 3. Retrieve the name of the 4 questionnaires used in the analysis.


• 4. What are the three different branches of Interoception?


• 5. Retrieve all the papers on which the current knowledge is based.


• 6. Retrieve the range of age of the participants of the investigation.


• 7. What are the two regions implicated in Interoception?


• 8. How the participants of the investigation were rectruited?


• 9. Retrieve the number of participants with anxiety or depression as a clinical diagnosis.


• 10. Retrieve all the scales used in the analysis.

And the list of the expected results

• 1. Fisher r-to-z tests, Potthoff analyses, ANOVA tests, Exploratory Factor Analysis.


• 2. Myocardial Infarction, Consumption of Caffeine, Consumption of Alcohol, Consumption of Other Substances, Abuse of Substances
  Colonic Distension, Feeding and eating Disorders (Eds), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Diabetes, Psychopathy,
  Anxiety, Depression, Post-traumatic stress disorders, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Multiple Sclerosis, Frontotemporal Dementia, Alexithymia, Interoception, Other Disorders.


• 3. Interoceptive Confusion Questionnaire, Body Perception Questionnaire (BPQ),
  Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA), Body Consciousness Questionnaire (BCQ).


• 4. Interoceptive sensitivity, Interoceptive sensibility, Interoceptive awareness.


• 5. "How Are Alexithymia And Physical Illness Linked?",
  "The Pfactor One General Psychopathology Factor In The Structure Of Psychiatric Disorders?",
  "Enhancement Of Heartbeat Related Brain Potentials Through Cardiac Awareness Training".


• 6. 18-69.


• 7. Anterior insula (AI), the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).


• 8. Facebook and Twitter.


• 9. 208.


• 10. Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (SRPS),
  Interoceptive Confusion Scale, State–Emotion Similarity Score.