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Table 5 Participants’ estimates of their actual expenditure during the last 3 months on health care for headache by headache type

From: The burden attributable to headache disorders in India: estimates from a community-based study in Karnataka State

Estimated expenditure (INR)

Migraine (n = 597)

Tension-type headache (n = 811)

pMOH (n = 28)

Other headache on ≥15 d/m (n = 40)

≤100 (%)

79.7

91.2

21.4

52.5

101–500 (%)

15.2

6.9

53.6

35.0

501–1,000 (%)

2.7

1.2

14.3

2.5

>1,000 (%)

2.3

0.6

10.7

10.0

Mean ± SD

112 ± 307

49 ± 218

532 ± 710

474 ± 1,083

 male

71 ± 143

44 ± 232

289 ± 383

517 ± 1,558

 female

134 ± 366

54 ± 204

573 ± 748

451 ± 751

 urban

103 ± 300

34 ± 177

775 ± 922

330 ± 657

 rural

119 ± 314

63 ± 250

375 ± 501

634 ± 1,417

Median

10

5

275

100

% of total household income

    

 mean ± SD

6.7 ± 49.9

2.4 ± 14.9

32.9 ± 76.9

42.8 ± 172.4

 median

0.4

0.1

7.4

1.8

  1. INR Indian rupee, n number of participants with the headache type, pMOH probable medication-overuse headache, d/m days/month