Abstract | BACKGROUND: We report validation of the Russian-language version of the Lifting The Burden headache screening and diagnostic questionnaire in a population-based sample of 501 individuals in four cities (Smolensk, Tchelyabinsk, Nishny Novgorod and Tver) and three rural areas (Tula, Tver and Gornyi) of Russia. METHODS: The structured questionnaire, based on ICHD-II criteria, was applied face to face by trained non-medical interviewers calling at randomly selected households. Response rates were about 73% in cities and 80% in rural areas. RESULTS: Of those responding, 301 reported headache in the previous year; of the total sample, 143 people with and 47 without headache according to the questionnaire were re-interviewed by telephone by one of the two neurologists unaware of the questionnaire diagnoses. Migraine (MIG), either definite (dMIG) or probable ( pMIG), was diagnosed by the questionnaire in 72 cases, and tension-type headache (TTH), either definite (dTTH) or probable (pTTH), in 66 cases; the five others with headache were unclassifiable by questionnaire. Physicians diagnosed dMIG or pMIG in 65 cases, dTTH or pTTH in 89 cases and no headache in 31 cases; in five cases, headache was unclassifiable. The questionnaire had sensitivities and specificities of 77% and 82% for MIG (κ=0.58) and of 64% and 91% for TTH (κ=0.56). CONCLUSIONS: We concluded that the questionnaire can be utilized in a population-based countrywide survey of the burden attributable to primary headache disorders in Russia.
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Authors | I Ayzenberg, Z Katsarava, R Mathalikov, M Chernysh, V Osipova, G Tabeeva, T J Steiner, Lifting The Burden: Global Campaign to Reduce Burden of Headache Worldwide and Russian Linguistic Subcommittee of International Headache Society |
Journal | European journal of neurology
(Eur J Neurol)
Vol. 18
Issue 3
Pg. 454-9
(Mar 2011)
ISSN: 1468-1331 [Electronic] England |
PMID | 20722704
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Validation Study)
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Copyright | © 2010 The Author(s). European Journal of Neurology © 2010 EFNS. |
Topics |
- Adult
- Cost of Illness
- Female
- Headache
(diagnosis, epidemiology)
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Russia
(epidemiology)
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Surveys and Questionnaires
- Young Adult
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