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The impact of headache in Europe: principal results of the Eurolight project

Overview of attention for article published in The Journal of Headache and Pain, May 2014
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Title
The impact of headache in Europe: principal results of the Eurolight project
Published in
The Journal of Headache and Pain, May 2014
DOI 10.1186/1129-2377-15-31
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Timothy J Steiner, Lars Jacob Stovner, Zaza Katsarava, Jose Miguel Lainez, Christian Lampl, Michel Lantéri-Minet, Daiva Rastenyte, Elena Ruiz de la Torre, Cristina Tassorelli, Jessica Barré, Colette Andrée

Abstract

European data, at least from Western Europe, are relatively good on migraine prevalence but less sound for tension-type headache (TTH) and medication-overuse headache (MOH). Evidence on impact of headache disorders is very limited. Eurolight was a data-gathering exercise primarily to inform health policy in the European Union (EU). This manuscript reports personal impact. The study was cross-sectional with modified cluster sampling. Surveys were conducted by structured questionnaire, including diagnostic questions based on ICHD-II and various measures of impact, and are reported from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom. Different methods of sampling were used in each. The full methodology is described elsewhere. Questionnaires were analysed from 8,271 participants (58% female, mean age 43.4 y). Participation-rates, where calculable, varied from 10.6% to 58.8%. Moderate interest-bias was detected. Unadjusted lifetime prevalence of any headache was 91.3%. Gender-adjusted 1-year prevalences were: any headache 78.6%; migraine 35.3%; TTH 38.2%, headache on ≥15 d/mo 7.2%; probable MOH 3.1%. Personal impact was high, and included ictal symptom burden, interictal burden, cumulative burden and impact on others (partners and children). There was a general gradient of probable MOH > migraine > TTH, and most measures indicated higher impact among females. Lost useful time was substantial: 17.7% of males and 28.0% of females with migraine lost >10% of days; 44.7% of males and 53.7% of females with probable MOH lost >20%. The common headache disorders have very high personal impact in the EU, with important implications for health policy.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Croatia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Unknown 268 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 38 14%
Student > Bachelor 32 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 9%
Researcher 24 9%
Other 18 7%
Other 50 19%
Unknown 83 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 98 36%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 9%
Neuroscience 14 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 3%
Social Sciences 6 2%
Other 24 9%
Unknown 97 36%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 December 2021.
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#1,580,111
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#1
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