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Table 2 Contact and treatment pattern in relation to different primary chronic headache diagnoses

From: Management of primary chronic headache in the general population: the Akershus study of chronic headache

 

CTTH without medication overuse (N = 216) % (n)

CTTH with medication overuse (N = 169) % (n)

Chronic migraine without medication overuse (N = 3) % (n)

Chronic migraine with medication overuse (N = 14) % (n)

Other primary chronic headache without medication overuse (N = 3) % (n)

Other primary chronic headache with medication overuse (N = 7) % (n)

All primary headaches (N = 405) % (n)

Contact level

 None

22 (47)

17 (28)

0 (0)

14 (2)

33 (1)

14 (1)

20 (79)

 Primary

78 (169)

83 (141)

100 (3)

86 (12)

67 (2)

86 (6)

80 (326)

 Secondary

16 (34)

20 (33)

33 (1)

36 (5)

67 (2)

71 (5)

19 (76)

 Tertiary

4 (9)

4 (7)

0 (0)

0 (0)

33 (1)

0 (0)

4 (17)

Complementary and alternative medicine

 Acupuncture

30 (65)

34 (58)

0 (0)

57 (8)d

67 (2)

43 (3)

33 (133)

 Chiropractic

29 (62)

28 (47)

0 (0)

29 (4)

33 (1)

14 (1)

28 (113)

 Homeopathy

11 (23)

10 (17)

0 (0)

14 (2)

33 (1)

29 (2)

11 (44)

 Naprapath

6 (13)

4 (6)

0 (0)

0 (0)

33 (1)

0 (0)

5 (20)

 Physiotherapy

50 (109)

56 (94)

0 (0)

57 (8)

33 (1)

43 (3)

52 (211)

 Psychologist

2 (4)

2 (3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

33 (1)

0 (0)

2 (8)

 Psychomotor physiotherapy

6 (14)

10 (17)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

8 (31)

 Any CAM

61 (132)

65 (110)

0 (0)

64 (9)

67 (2)

57 (4)

62 (253)

Medication use

 Acute medication

75 (163)b

100 (169)a,c

100 (3)

100 (14)

100 (3)

100 (7)

87 (352)

 Prophylactic medication

3 (7)

3 (5)

0 (0)

7 (1)

0 (0)

14 (1)

3 (14)

  1. Individual diagnoses are not mutually exclusive
  2. ap < 0.001 for CTTH with medication overuse versus CTTH without medication overuse
  3. bp < 0.001 for CTTH without medication overuse versus all other primary headaches
  4. cp < 0.001 for CTTH with medication overuse versus all other primary headaches
  5. dp < 0.05 for chronic migraine with medication overuse versus all other primary headache