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Table 2 Lost productive time in the preceding 3 months, per-person and, for paid work, at population level, by headache type

From: The burden of headache disorders in Ethiopia: national estimates from a population-based door-to-door survey

Headache type

Days lost from paid work

Days lost from household work

Lost leisure occasions

n

%a

n

%a

n

per person

population level

Migraine (N = 452)

2.9 ± 5.9 [0; 0; 4]

4.5

0.80

4.8 ± 8.3 [0, 0, 8]

5.3

0.8 ± 1.7 [0; 0; 1]

Tension-type headache (N = 493)

1.3 ± 3.0 [0; 0; 2]

2.0

0.41

1.1 ± 3.4 [0; 0; 0]

1.2

0.2 ± 0.5 [0; 0; 0]

Probable medication-overuse headache (N = 21)

19.0 ± 31.9 [0; 0; 30]

29.2

0.20

14.4 ± 23.6 [0; 0; 20]

16.0

4.1 ± 9.1 [0; 0; 3.5]

Other headache on ≥15 days/month (N = 67)

5.3 ± 11.7 [0; 0; 4]

8.2

0.22

9.7 ± 21.0 [0; 0; 6]

10.8

2.5 ± 11.5 [0; 0; 1]

  1. Values of n are means ± SD [quartile 1; median; quartile 3]. aPercentage of total days available for paid work (denominator 65) or household work (denominator 90).