Document Type : Research Article
Author
Faculty member of the Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
Abstract
The objective of this study was construction and validation of a questionnaire for the measurement of migraine headache symptoms in the general population. Using factor analysis, a 25-item questionnaire entitled Ahvaz Migraine Questionnaire (AMQ) was constructed. The psychometric characteristics of AMQ (including test-retest reliability, internal consistency and validity coefficients) were found to be very satisfactory. The prevalence of migraine headache symptoms as well as their percentile ranks were assessed for female and male subjects The sample included 382 undergraduate students from Shahid Chamran and Ahvaz Islamic Open Universities (mean age 23.09 and sd=3.44 years). According to the findings of this study, migraine headache symptoms are very prevalent among 15% of the subjects. No significant difference was found between female and male subjects with respect to their scores on AMQ. The author suggests that more studies are required to further examine the psychometric charactersitics ot MHQ in other settings.
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