title: 12 item allodynia symptom checklist/Brasil: cross-cultural adaptation, internal consistency and reproducibility.
abstract: Since there was no Portuguese questionnaire to evaluate cutaneous allodynia, which has been pointed out as a risk factor of migraine, we aimed to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the 12 item Allodynia Symptom Checklist for the Brazilian population and to test its measurement properties. It consisted in six stages: translation, synthesis, back translation, revision by a specialist committee, pretest and submission the documents to the committee. In the pretest stage, the questionnaire was applied to 30 migraineurs of both sexes, who had some difficulty in understanding it. Thus, a second version was applied to 30 additional subjects, with no difficulties being reported. The mean filling out time was 3'36", and the internal consistency was 0.76. To test reproducibility, 15 other subjects filled out the questionnaire at two different times, it was classified as moderate (weighted kappa=0.58). We made available to Brazilian population an easy, quick and reliable questionnaire.
authors.affiliation: Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo HCFMRP-USP, Ribeirão Preto SP, Brazil. lidiane.florencio@usp.br
authors.forename: Lidiane Lima
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Florencio
authors.forename: Thais Cristina
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Chaves
authors.forename: Lívia B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Branisso
authors.forename: Maria Cláudia
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Gonçalves
authors.forename: Fabíola
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dach
authors.forename: José Geraldo
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Speciali
authors.forename: Marcelo Eduardo
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Bigal
authors.forename: Débora
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bevilaqua-Grossi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D057189:Checklist; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006930:Hyperalgesia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D013997:Time Factors; D014177:Translations