%0 Journal Article
%T Devising and validating a headache diary in a series of patients with chronic daily headache from Colombia
%A Torres
%A Gabriel F
%A Ot¨¢lvaro
%A Martha I.
%A Vargas
%A Juan C.
%A Castellanos
%A Yulexi
%A Garc¨ªa
%A Jeimy Xiomara
%A Triana
%A Javier D.
%A Forero
%A Cesar A.
%A Guevara
%A Carlos D.
%A Pardo
%A Rodrigo
%J Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
%D 2012
%I Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO
%R 10.1590/S0004-282X2012000100009
%X objective: to devise and test the reliability and validity of a brief headache diary in a series of colombian patients with chronic daily headache. methods: the study was designed in five stages: selection of domains (group of patients and experts); initial devising of the items (writing group); identification of non-understandable items (n=20); assessment of internal consistency (n=100); assessment of validity and assessment of sensitivity to change during seven consecutive days (n=25, 175 observations). results: five domains were selected: headache presence, severity and length of pain, analgesics intake, and missing workdays. the headache diary is internally consistent (¡Ö75% of rotated variance), correlates with the medical interview (spearman's rho and kendall's tau over 0.8 for each domain) and it has an adequate and stable sensitivity and specificity (82 to 96%). conclusions: this headache diary is a reliable and valid instrument and represents the most important features affecting colombian patients with chronic daily headache.
%K colombia
%K diagnosis
%K headache disorders
%K medical records
%K reproducibility of results
%K validation studies.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-282X2012000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en