Development and validation of the dizziness symptoms questionnaire in Thai-outpatients.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

"Dizziness" is a common complaint in clinical practice that can occur with anyone. However, since the symptom is caused by a wide range of disorders, a general clinician usually faces some difficulty to detect the cause.

Objective

This study aimed to formulate and validate a simple instrument that can be used to screen and predict the most likely cause of dizziness in Thai outpatients.

Methods

This study was divided into two phases. Phase I included 41 patients diagnosed with common causes of dizziness to determine the algorithm and construct the "structural algorithm questionnaire version 1". In addition, to test and retest its content validity and reliability until the instrument had an acceptable level of both. Phase II of the study pertained to evalua

SUBMITTER: Suvanich R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9483993 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature