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Table 1 Demographic and Clinical Characteristiscs

From: Evaluating integrated headache care: a one-year follow-up observational study in patients treated at the Essen headache centre

  

Migraine

(n = 637)

Migraine + TTH

(n = 132)

TTH

(n = 72)

Gender n (%)

Male

85 (13.3)

11 (8.3)

23 (31.9)

 

Female

552 (86.7)

121 (91.7)

49 (68.1)

Age, mean (SD)

 

40.7 (12.7)

38.6 (13.7)

45.3 (17.8)

Education* n (%)

Low education

350 (54.9)

69 (52.3)

29 (40.3)

 

High education

193 (30.3)

44 (33.3)

10 (13.9)

 

Missíng

94 (14.8)

19 (14.4.)

33 (45.8)

Employment, n (%)

Unemployed

30 (4.7)

5 (3.8)

8 (11.1)

 

Fulltime

441 (69.2)

90 (68.2)

35 (48.6)

 

Housemaker

68 (10.7)

13 (9.8)

7 (9.7)

 

Pensioner

33 (5.2)

10 (7.6)

17 (23.6)

 

Missing

65 (10.2)

14 (10.6)

5 (6.9)

Marital Status, n (%)

Single

81 (12.7)

22 (16.7)

12 (16.7)

 

Partnership

421 (66.1)

77 (58.3)

44 (61.1)

 

Others

42 (6.6)

12 (9.1)

7 (9.7)

 

Missing

93 (14.6)

21 (15.9)

9 (12.5)

Smoking, n (%)

Yes

91 (14.3)

16 (12.1)

11 (15.3)

 

No

448 (70.3)

96 (72.7)

47 (65.3)

 

Missing

98 (15.4)

20 (15.2)

14 (19.4)

Duration of disease, years mean (SD)

 

19.9 (12.5)

17.2 (13.5)

11.7 (11.5)

Headache frequency at admission days/month, mean (SD)

 

8.9 (19.9)

16.7 (31.8)

25.6 (34.0)

MIDAS grade** at

I

20.2 (20.6)

26.3 (26.4)

n.a.

admission, mean (SD)

II

18.2 (17.2)

21.7 (21.0)

n.a.

 

III

20.6 (16.4)

22.0 (18.7)

n.a.

 

IV

36.1 (22.9)

37.9 (24.2)

n.a

  1. TTH: Tension Type Headache; n.a.: not applicable. * Education level is divided into two groups: a) Low education: no school qualification+ high school qualification. b) High education: A-level+ University degree, ** MIDAS: Migraine Disability Assessment Score. MIDAS scores are categorized by disability levels: little or no disability (grade I: 0-5), mild disability (grade II: 6-10), moderate disability (grade III: 11-20), severe disability (grade IV: 20+); S.D.: standard deviation, n: number of patients.