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Table 4 Satisfaction with medication for acute relief of migraine symptoms (patient reported)

From: A global real-world assessment of the impact on health-related quality of life and work productivity of migraine in patients with insufficient versus good response to triptan medication

Treatment, n (%)

TIRs

(n = 483)

TRs

(n = 930)

All

(n = 1413)

p-valuea

Would you like to continue taking your medication?b

   

< 0.001

 Definitely yes

169 (37.0)

604 (69.1)

773 (58.1)

 

 Probably yes

209 (45.7)

243 (27.8)

452 (34.0)

 

 Do not know

59 (12.9)

24 (2.7)

83 (6.2)

 

 Probably not

16 (3.5)

3 (0.3)

19 (1.4)

 

 Definitely not

4 (0.9)

0

4 (0.3)

 

Reasons for dissatisfactionb,c

 I feel that my migraine medication doesn’t work well

79 (58.5)

12 (31.6)

91 (52.6)

0.003

 My migraine medication does not work as well as it used to

46 (34.1)

14 (36.8)

60 (34.7)

0.751

 The severity of the side effects I experience

23 (17.0)

2 (5.3)

25 (14.5)

0.068

 The number of side effects I experience

14 (10.4)

2 (5.3)

16 (9.2)

0.528

 I am not happy with the way I have to take my migraine medication

10 (7.4)

5 (13.2)

15 (8.7)

0.325

 Cost

1 (0.7)

0

1 (0.6)

1.00

 Other reasons

5 (1.2)

6 (0.7)

11 (0.8)

0.344

  1. aP-values from test of two group difference: t-test for continuous variables and chi-square for categorical variables. bPatient reported. cIn patients who were neither satisfied nor extremely satisfied with acute medication. Patients could tick all responses that applied
  2. TIR triptan insufficient responder; TR triptan responder