We completed 100 paired telephone chronic headache classification interviews and 18 participants attended the self-management intervention.
Our biggest challenges were being able to contact participants for eligibility and classification telephone interviews and delivering the group intervention at times convenient for a largely working population.
Following the detailed telephone interview, health classification was determined to be well in 1,758 respondents, unwell but without fatigue in 1,431, and unwell with fatigue in 2,441.
We recorded age, Body Mass Index (BMI), ASA classification and telephone numbers.
D-AI: Dutch ICF Activity Inventory MRCC: Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Centre; AI: Activity Inventory; CATI: Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview; ICF: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health; PL: Priority List; TPL-15: Top Priority List The authors declare that they do not have competing interests.
The research assistant will then arrange an appointment with these patients for the administration of the mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) by telephone for DSM-IV classification [ 45, 46] If a patient meets the DSM-IV criteria for MDD according to the MINI, the patient will be included in the study and after a second informed consent is obtained, the patient will be randomised.
Data on time of contact, patient gender and age, and prescribed medication (Anatomic Therapeutic Chemical classifications) for telephone consultations were obtained from the patient administration system.
Several coding classification schemes on the telephone response forms also require revision.
Individuals' responses during the detailed telephone interview approximated the household informants' classification.
Because placement in the CFS-like classification group was based on telephone responses, those who declined clinical evaluation retained the classification of CFS-like, as did those who no longer reported sufficient symptoms or fatigue severity during their clinical evaluation.
