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Headache-related disability among medical students in Amazon: a cross-sectional study
Carlos Mauricio Oliveira de Almeida1, Paulo Antônio Machado da Silva Lima2, Rebecca Stabenow2
1Departamento de Neurologia, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil.
Objective:
To evaluate the prevalence of headache in medical students, and quantify the degree of disability through HIT-6 and MIDAS SCALE.
Method:
The criteria established by International Headache Society were used and the HIT-6 and MIDAS, to asses disability.
Results:
140 medical students from UFAM were evaluated. 16.43% cases of migraine headache, 6.43% of probable migraine, and 23.57% of tension headaches were detected. 6.42% reported an absence of headache; and another 11.42% had secondary headache. According to the HIT-6 questionnaire, in 7.14% and 18.57% of the students, headaches were classified as having substantial to severe impact, respectively.
Conclusion:
Migraine and probable migraine had higher scores than the other types of headache and, therefore, led to higher levels of disability. The present study did not find a significant correlation between student semester, age or extracurricular activities on the impact generated by headache.
