title: The Vågå Study: an outline of the design.
abstract: We carried out an epidemiological study of headache in a rural parish in the mountainous region of southern Norway. During a 2-year period from October 1995, 1838 parishioners in the age range 18-65 (or 88.6% of the target group) were examined in a structured interview based on a questionnaire. The questionnaires were validated in two ways: 100 records were re-checked, with a consistency of 98%, and a re-check of 41 parishioners was carried out > 2 months after the 1st examination. The details of the latter control study will be reported later. Only one result of the study is given: namely, idiopathic stabbing headache ("jabs and jolts syndrome") was present in > 30% of parishioners.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Regionsykehuset, University of Trondheim (NTNU) Hospitals, Norway.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sjaastad
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Båtnes
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Haugen
mesh_terms: D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D009664:Norway; D010560:Personnel Selection; D015995:Prevalence; D012423:Rural Health; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards