background: migraine is one of the most common headaches that affect 11% or more adult population. recently, researchers have designed two questionnaires, namely headache impact test (hit) and migraine disability assessment (midas), with the aim of improving migraine care. these two tests provide a standard measurement about migraine's effects on people's life style that divide patients into 4 ...

background: providing a self-care program appropriate for patient needs in a supportive educative nursing system format could reduce migraine-induced disability. this study was designed to determine the effectiveness of orem's self-care program on headache related disability in migraine patients. methods: in this randomized clinical trial, episodic migraine patients with or without aura who sig...

We aimed to determine the association of cervical range motion (ROM) with clinical features headache and neck pain psychosocial factors in patients migraine. Seventy women diagnosed migraine were questioned regarding onset frequency, presence, intensity self-reported pain. These individuals also completed following questionnaires: Neck Disability Index, Migraine Assessment, Patient Health Quest...

BACKGROUND Disability caused by migraine may be one of the main causes of burden contributing to poor quality of life (QOL) among migraine patients. Thus, this study aimed to measure QOL among migraine sufferers in comparison with healthy controls. METHODS Female diagnosed migraine patients (n= 100) and healthy controls (n=100) completed the Malay version of the World Health Organization QOL ...

background: migraine and other recurrent headaches are considered a major public health concern. levetiracetam, a broad spectrum anti-epileptic have been used in migraine prophylaxis. objectives: assessment the efficacy of levetiracetam on migraine in comparison to sodium valproate. materials and methods: this randomized double blind clinical trial was performed on patients with migraine headac...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence, characteristics and impact of headache among university students. METHOD The criteria established by the International Headache Society were used to define the primary headache subtypes and the Migraine Disability Assessment Questionnaire (MIDAS), to assess the disability. The students were then grouped into six categories: [1] migraine; [2] probable mig...

Migraine may be associated with neck impairment and migraine chronicity is related to greater disability. However, whether other subclassifications of migraine, such as aura, are currently unknown. The aim this study was assess the musculoskeletal aspects in patients without aura. Consecutive diagnosed were recruited from a tertiary headache clinic. divided into two groups according presence (M...

Migraine is a significant health problem due to its frequency and accompanying morbidity, which includes disability and loss of performance. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of migraine and assess the disability and preferences of treatment among university students in Afyon, a Turkish city. This is the first cross-sectional prevalence study of migraine conducted on university students in Tu...