Migraine prevalence, clinical characteristics, and health care-seeking practice in a sample of medical students in Egypt

Abstract Introduction Migraine is a common disabling primary headache disorder with significant personal and socio-economic impacts. Medical students usually have multiple triggers for migraine, particularly stress irregular sleep. Objective To assess the prevalence, characteristics, degree of disability migraine in sample Egyptian medical to study their health care-seeking practice when having Patients methods A descriptive cross-sectional, questionnaire-based included 631 undergraduate enrolled Faculty Medicine. Participants’ sociodemographic data, characteristic, disability, were evaluated. By using MIDAS test questionnaire, we assessed impact on daily activities students. The severity was visual analog scale (VAS) scores. Results Prevalence found be 17.9% causing moderate disability. significantly more prevalent caused among female compared males ( p value 0.001 0.001). Only 35.4% migraineurs had already seen doctors self-prescription medications practiced by 58.4%. Statistically positive correlation between frequency, severity, low academic performance 0.003 respectively). Conclusion highly predominant prevalence has negative other activities.