@article{article_1046466, title={Establishment and reliability test of a “Vertigo Council Diagnosis Questionnaire” for patients with chronic vestibular dysfunction: preliminary study}, journal={The Turkish Journal of Ear Nose and Throat}, volume={25}, pages={271–274}, year={2015}, author={Karapolat, Hale and Çelebisoy, Neşe and Gökçay, Figen and Bilgen, Cem and Özgen, Gülnur and Göde, Sercan and Kirazlı, Tayfun}, keywords={Reliability, scale, vertigo}, abstract={Objectives: This study aims to establish a “Vertigo Council Diagnosis Questionnaire” for patients with chronic vestibular dysfunction and show the reliability of this questionnaire. Materials and Methods: A “Vertigo Council Diagnosis Questionnaire” consisting of 10 questions was prepared by 15 specialist physicians and analyzed for reliability using the “translation-back-translation” method. Results: When all the items of our questionnaire were evaluated, the content validity ratio ranged from 0.6 to 0.87, and the content validity index was 0.676. The conformity ratio between the real diagnosis and the diagnosis based on the questionnaire was 63.19%, and the kappa was 0.441 moderate . No significant difference was found between the first and second responses to any of the questions p>0.05 . There was no significant difference between question conformity conformity between the first and second responses and diagnostic conformity conformity between the real diagnosis and the diagnosis based on the questionnaire p>0.05 in any of the questions. No relationship was found between diagnostic conformity and sociodemographic data age, sex, education, occupation p>0.05 . Conclusion: Our study results suggest that, in Turkish patients, diagnosis of vertigo should be based on face-to-face interviews, and clinical and laboratory evaluations rather than a questionnaire.}, number={5}, publisher={Istanbul University}