A qualitative review of the psychometric properties and feasibility of electronic headache diaries for children and adults: Where we are and where we need to go

Pain Research and Management

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 142-152

  Stinson, Jennifer N ^a,b   Huguet, Anna ^c   McGrath, Patrick ^c   Rosenbloom, Brittany ^a   Soobiah, Charlene ^a   White, Meghan ^a   Coburn, Geraldine ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adults; Children; Electronic pain diaries; Headache diary; Psychometric properties

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC PAIN; CINAHL; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMBASE; EVALUATION; FACE VALIDITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MEDLINE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCINFO; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 84879976778     PISSN: 12036765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/369541     Document Type: Review

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