Management of headache and associated factors among undergraduate medicine and health science students of University of Gondar, North West Ethiopia

Table 3 Management options of headache used among students who had headache in the last 12 months, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Ethiopia (n = 464), May, 2014

Management options used	Frequency	Percent (%)
Take medications available from their own locker and/or share from friends	152	32.76 %
Purchase medications from pharmacy	208	44.83 %
Visit physician	32	6.90 %
Take substances other than drugs^a	24	5.17 %
Nondrug treatments such as just lie down in quiet place, showering, Cold press	120	25.86 %

^asubstances like tea, coffee, leaves of ocimum sanctum and other traditional treatments

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