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Ficha
A screening questionnaire for convulsive seizures: A three-stage field-validation in rural Bolivia
Título
A screening questionnaire for convulsive seizures: A three-stage field-validation in rural Bolivia
Autoría
Loretta Giuliano
Calogero Edoardo Cicero
Elizabeth Blanca Crespo Gomez
Sandra Padilla
Elisa Bruno
Benoit Marin
Vito Sofia
Pierre-Marie Preux
Marianne Strohmeyer
Alessandro Bartoloni
Alessandra Nicoletti
Descripción
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases in Latin American Countries (LAC) and epilepsy associated with convulsive seizures is the most frequent type. Therefore, the detection of convulsive seizures is a priority, but a validated Spanish-language screening tool to detect convulsive seizures is not available. We performed a field validation to evaluate the accuracy of a Spanish-language questionnaire to detect convulsive seizures in rural Bolivia using a three-stage design. The questionnaire was also administered face to- face, using a two-stage design, to evaluate the difference in accuracy. The study was carried out in the rural communities of the Gran Chaco region. The questionnaire consists of a single screening question directed toward the householders and a confirmatory section administered face-to-face to the index case. Positive subjects underwent a neurological examination to detect false positive and true positive subjects. To estimate the proportion of false negative, a random sample of about 20% of the screened negative underwent a neurological evaluation.
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Inglés
Editor
PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173945
Colaborador
Tarcisio Dino Ciabatti, coordinator of the agreement between the
Ministerio de Salud y Deportes and the Vicariato Apostolico de Camiri,
“Convenio de Salud of Camiri
Ministerio de Salud y Deportes and the Vicariato Apostolico de Camiri,
“Convenio de Salud of Camiri
Identificador
PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173945.
Materia
Screening questionnaire seizures
Fecha de entrega
November 5, 2016
Fecha de aceptación
2017
