ArticleThe journal of headache and pain2013
Probable medications overuse headaches: validation of a brief easy-to-use screening tool in a headache centre.
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- Diagnostic and classification tools for chronic headache disorders: A systematic review.Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache · 2019Pooled it
- Validation of a Self-Screening Questionnaire for Medication Overuse Headache (SSQ-MOH) in a Thai University-based Hospital Headache Clinic.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Headache Prevalence and Its Associated Factors in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Clinical Utility of Leeds Dependence Questionnaire in Medication-Overuse Headache.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Factors Associated with Over-the-Counter Analgesic Overuse among Individuals Experiencing Headache.Clinics and practice · 2022Article
- Risk of medication overuse headache across classes of treatments for acute migraine.The journal of headache and pain · 2016Review
- Medication overuse headache.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2015Review
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Abstract
backgroundTo validate a rapid questionnaire as a screening tool, because application of the diagnostic revised criteria of the ICHD-II for medication overuse headache (MOH) requires experience for the physician and is time-consuming.
methodsICHD-II criteria for probable MOH (pMOH) were transformed in questions formulated in such a way that they could be self-administered, easily understood, and quickly filled out. We compared this questionnaire to the gold standard: the diagnosis made by headache specialists, based on the the ICHD-II criteria. Patients who were consulting for pMOH or migraine for the first time were consecutively included. As validity indicators, we calculated sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of the items.
resultsSeventy-nine patients were screened, 77 included, 2 female patients excluded. Forty-two patients have been considered as suffering from pMOH, 35 patients suffered from migraine without medication overuse. The association of the question "do you take a treatment for attacks more than 10 days per month" and the question "is this intake on a regular basis?" had a sensitivity of 95.2% and a specificity of 80%.
conclusionThis screening tool can detect pMOH with a sensitivity that could be of interest to screen patients in clinical practice and to pre-include patients for research as epidemiological studies.
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