Publication |
Author(s) | Langeveld, J.H. |
Title | Quality of Life in Adolescents with Migraine and Other Headaches. |
Source | Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1998, Netherlands. ISNB 90 90 12 007 6 |
Investigation |
Public | 12-18 aged migraine patients and controls, followed 26 months, The Netherlands, 199? |
| Students of two comprehensive schools (MAVO and VWO) and their parents/ caretakers), situated in the same medium-sized Dutch towns (nearly 60000 inhabitants) |
| Year of data gathering not reported
T0=baseline; T1=one week after T0; T2 two weeks after T0; T3=three weeks after T0; T4=26 weeks after T0 |
Survey name | Not available |
Sample | Non-probability purposive sample |
| - adolescents with migraine: i.e. symptoms of migraine ever diagnosed by physician as "migraine"
- adolescents with no-migraine headaches i.e. symptoms considered by the subjects to resemble the symptoms in the migraine description
- "no headache" group sample |
Respondents N = | 159 |
| Experimental group: N=58 of 64
Gender: Boys: 34%; Girls 66%
Controle group (matched): N= 95 of 96
Gender: Boys: 34%; Girls 66% |
Non Response | at T0: 4% |
| Drop out at follow up: T1: 3%, T2: 3%, T4: 15% |
Assesment | Questionnaire: paper |
General remarks | Aim of the study: Evaluation of the stability, parent-youth agreements, intercorrelations and responsiveness of the subscales of the QLH-Y questionnanaire |
Happiness measure(s) used |