Multilingual Validation of the Questionnaire for Verifying Stroke-Free Status in West Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

The Questionnaire for Verifying Stroke-Free Status (QVSFS), a method for verifying stroke-free status in participants of clinical, epidemiological, and genetic studies, has not been validated in low-income settings where populations have limited knowledge of stroke symptoms. We aimed to validate QVSFS in 3 languages, Yoruba, Hausa and Akan, for ascertainment of stroke-free status of control subjects enrolled in an on-going stroke epidemiological study in West Africa.

Methods

Data were collected using a cross-sectional study design where 384 participants were consecutively recruited from neurology and general medicine clinics of 5 tertiary referral hospitals in Nigeria and Ghana. Ascertainment of stroke status was by neurologists using structured neurol

SUBMITTER: Sarfo F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4696900 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature