QUALITY OF LIFE OF MIGRAINE PATIENTS

• Main Authors: Mihaela Mihaela Strgar-Hladnik, Janko Kersnik
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Slovenian Medical Association 2008-04-01
• Series: Zdravniški Vestnik
• Online Access: http://vestnik.szd.si/index.php/ZdravVest/article/view/476

BACKGROUND Migraine is a common disorder, with an estimated prevalence of 12 % among adults.Migraine is considered a neurological disorder, in which both vascular and neuronalcomponents play a pathophysiological role. RESULTS 162 female patients with established migraine diagnosis from 36 general practitioneroffices, aged between 18 and 63 years participated the research. 53 of female patientsin our pattern meet the criterion for the migraine with aura and 109 for the migrainewithout aura. 61.4 % of the later suffer from tipical migraine’s headache. Due to of theheadache 64.20 % of female patients were incapable of doing housework, 48.15 % werebadly affected at work, 8.64 % were unable to take part in social events and only 1 femalepatient could not practise her sports activites. The female patients were absent from workcollectively 149 working days in the last year, average 6.09 days for each of female patientsdue to the migraine. 94.4 % of female patients consider their working ability to be severelyreduced by their headaches. CONCLUSIONS Several strategies enhance the quality of the health care and quality of life of the migrainepatients: stratified care, aggressive triptan use, prophylactic management. More frequentadvice on nonpharmacological measures lead to better control of migraine attacksPatients and In the research a designed questionnaire was answered by the coincidentally chosenmethods family practitioners far the every sixth of successive female patients, as well as the femalepatients themselves. The data were collected from 162 female patients, who were coming tothe general practitioner office between November 2004 and April 2005. The data aboutmigraine treatment, medical visits and sick list were summarized according to the files offamily medicine.Results 162 female patients with established migraine diagnosis from 36 general practitioneroffices, aged between 18 and 63 years participated the research. 53 of female patientsin our pattern meet the criterion for the migraine with aura and 109 for the migrainewithout aura. 61.4 % of the later suffer from tipical migraine’s headache. Due to of theheadache 64.20 % of female patients were incapable of doing housework, 48.15 % werebadly affected at work, 8.64 % were unable to take part in social events and only 1 femalepatient could not practise her sports activites. The female patients were absent from workcollectively 149 working days in the last year, average 6.09 days for each of female patientsdue to the migraine. 94.4 % of female patients consider their working ability to be severelyreduced by their headaches.Conclusions Several strategies enhance the quality of the health care and quality of life of the migrainepatients: stratified care, aggressive triptan use, prophylactic management. More frequentadvice on nonpharmacological measures lead to better control of migraine attacks