Validation of a german language questionnaire for screening for migraine, tension-type headache, and trigeminal autonomic cephalgias.

Background: To develop a German language questionnaire for screening for migraine, tension-type headache, and trigeminal autonomic cephalgias.

Objective: Aim of the study was to develop a German language self-administered headache questionnaire for screening for migraine (MIG), tension-type headache (TTH), and trigeminal-autonomic cephalgias (TAC).

Methods: Questionnaire-based diagnoses were blindly compared with those of headache experts.