Prevalence of headache in children of a school from Curitiba, Brazil, comparing data obtained from children and parents

• Autor(a) principal: ANTONIUK,SÉRGIO
• Data de Publicação: 1998
• Outros Autores: KOZAK,MARCELO FELIPE, MICHELON,LEANDRO, MONTEMÓR NETTO,MÁRIO RODRIGUES
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1998000500005
• topic: headache; schoolchildren; epidemiology

This study analyzed prevalence, frequency and cause of headache among 460 children ranging from 10 to 14 years-old from a Brazilian school. A questionnaire was handed both to children and parents to know if there would be differences among children and parental reports. The lifetime prevalence of headache was 93.5% (children reports) and 93.3% (parental reports). The last year prevalence was 90% (children) and 89.8% (parents). Headache episodes were frequent in 17.6% (children) and 18.5% (parents). The most often reported cause was "flu" (39.1% by children, and 46.7% by parents). This study demonstrated that the prevalence of headache in children is high; moreover, there were noted few differences between data obtained from children and parents. So, we could say that when the objective of a epidemiologic study is to determine the prevalence of headache in children, both children and parental reports may be used.