Table 6 Participants’ estimates of their willingness to pay (WTP) for effective treatment for headache, as an overall measure of burden, by headache type
Reported amount willing to pay (INR) | Migraine (n = 597) | Tension-type headache (n = 811) | pMOH (n = 28) | Other headache on ≥15 d/m (n = 40) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
≤100 (%) | 64.8 | 77.3 | 28.6 | 40.0 |
101–500 (%) | 30.7 | 19.5 | 57.1 | 50.0 |
501–1,000 (%) | 3.0 | 2.0 | 3.6 | 7.5 |
>1,000 (%) | 1.5 | 1.2 | 10.7 | 2.5 |
Mean ± SD | 206 ± 452 | 191 ± 914 | 435 ± 577 | 309 ± 376 |
Median | 100 | 50 | 200 | 200 |
Mean ratio of WTP to actual expenditure | 5.8 ± 18.1 | 8.8 ± 22.3 | 1.8 ± 3.0 | 2.4 ± 3.7 |