Introduction We present the validation of a headache questionnaire in Georgian language which has been constructed for utilisation in an epidemiological survey of the prevalences of primary headache disorders in the Republic of Georgia.
Methods
Construction of questionnaire
Subjects
Statistics
Results
Validity of all questionnaire diagnoses
1A Distribution of headache disorders according to the questionnaire | |||||
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Total (N=186) | MIG (N=49) | TTH (N=76) | TAC (N=16) | MIG+TTH (N=45) | |
Years: mean (SD) | 45.5 (12.4) | 38.5 (10.5) | 44.8 (13.1) | 34.7 (10.1) | 40.4 (13.5) |
Gender: m/w | 33/153 | 10/39 | 13/63 | 4/12 | 7/38 |
1B Distribution of headache disorders according to physicians | ||||||
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Total (N=186) | MIG (N=59) | TTH2 (N=77) | TAC (N=2) | MIG+TTH (N=34) | Symptomatic headaches* (N=14) | |
Years: mean (SD) | 45.4 (12.4) | 36.3 (10.3) | 42.9(12.8) | 39; 59 | 42.8 (12.7) | |
Gender: m/w | 33/153 | 9/50 | 15/62 | 2/0 | 7/27 |
Physician MIG | TTH | TAC | MIG+TTH | Symptomatic headache | Total | ||
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Questionnaire | MIG | 44 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 49 |
TTH | 3 | 61 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 76 | |
TAC | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 16 | |
MIG+TTH | 7 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 45 | |
Total | 59 | 77 | 2 | 34 | 14 | 186 |
Sensitivity (95% CI) | Specificity (95% CI) | PPV (95% CI) | NPV (95% CI) | |
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Migraine | 0.75 (0.64–0.86) | 0.96 (0.92–0.99) | 0.89 (0.81–0.98) | 0.89 (0.84–0.94) |
Tension-type headache | 0.79 (0.70–0.88) | 0.86 (0.80–0.93) | 0.8 (0.71–0.89) | 0.85 (0.79–0.92) |
Migraine plus tension-type headache | 0.62 (0.45–0.78) | 0.84 (0.78–0.90) | 0.47 (0.32–0.61) | 0.91 (0.86–0.96) |