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Table 4 Frequency of medical care utilization by burden of disease for headache

From: Migraine and tension type headache in adolescents at grammar school in Germany – burden of disease and health care utilization

  

Having seen a physician because of the headache in the last 12 months (yes)

Use of analgetic drugs (sometimes or every time)

Burden of disease

%

(N)

[95 %-CI]

PedMIDAS

moderate/severe (N = 93) (total scale >30)

35.48

62.77

(33)

(59)

[25.83-46.09]

[52.18-72.52]

little to none/mild (N = 1259) (total scale ≤30)

10.25

27.61

(129)

(349)

[08.63-12.05]

[25.16-30.17]

Pain intensity (on Likert scale from 1 to 10)

>5 (N = 625)

20.00

43.06

(125)

(270)

[16.93-23.35]

[39.15-47.04]

≤5 (N = 740)

4.73

19.05

(35)

(141)

[3.32-6.52]

[16.28-22.07]

Frequency of headache episodes

More than six headache days in the last three month (N = 529)

18.71

40.23

(99)

(214)

[15.48-22.30]

[36.03-44.53]

At most 6 headache days in the last three months (N = 858)

7.81

23.48

(67)

(201)

[6.10-9.81]

[20.68-26.47]