From: Burden of migraine in a Kuwaiti population: a door-to-door survey
Variables | M ± SD/No (%) |
---|---|
Mean Age | 34.56 ± 10.17 |
Marital state | |
 • Single | 641 (17.9) |
 • Married | 2738 (67.3) |
 • Divorced | 100 (2.8) |
 • Widow | 109 (3) |
Education | |
 • University | 2269 (63.2) |
 • High School | 1164 (32.4) |
 • Primary School | 17 (0.4) |
Employment | |
 • Full time | 2513(70) |
 • Part time | 538 (15) |
 • Student | 170 (4.7) |
 • Housewife | 239 (6.7) |
 • Not working | 128 (3.6) |
Frequency of attacks/month | 6.67 ± 2.33 |
Duration of attacks in hours | 6.08 ± 334 |
Severity of headache | |
 • Not bad | 35 (1.4) |
 • Quite bad | 2170 (60.4) |
 • Very bad | 1369 (38.2) |
Treatments taken | |
 • Symptomatic treatment | 3395 (94.6) |
 • Prophylactic treatment | 1433 (39.9) |
Use Health service | 2309 (64.4) |
Consultations | |
 • General practitioner | 2253 (62.8) |
 • Neurologist | 616 (17.2) |
 • Persons prescribing Traditional Medicine | 586 (16.3) |
 • Other specialties | 81 (2.3) |