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Objective.—To investigate whether children and adolescents can recall prior headache complaints accurately and to study whether age, gender, headache severity, preferred coping strategies, depression, somatization, and trait anxiety are related to recall errors, causing recall bias. Methods.—A retrospective headache questionnaire and a prospective 4‐week headache diary were filled out by 181 children aged 9 to 16 years who experienced headache at least weekly. In addition, several other questionnaires were administered, measuring coping strategies, depression, somatization, and trait anxiety. Headache frequency, intensity, and duration, as scored on the questionnaire and the diary, were compared using Wilcoxon tests. Regression analyses were performed to study whether age, gender, headache severity, preferred coping strategies, depression, somatization, and trait anxiety can predict the size of differences between the diary and the questionnaire. Results.—Compared with the diary, headache intensity and headache duration were overestimated on the questionnaire. At group level, median headache frequency as measured by the diary and the questionnaire was equal. Regarding headache freq

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Author

M. Van Den Brink; E.N.G. Bandell‐Hoekstra; H. Huijer Abu‐Saad

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0017-8748)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)