[The prevalence of symptoms of anxiety and depression in female migraine sufferers].

INTRODUCTION

The comorbidity migraine and mental disorder is high, specially, anxiety and depressive disorders. Aim. To establish the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms in a clinical population of women who suffered from migraine.

PATIENTS AND METHODS

We included women with migraine over 18 years old, no pregnant and without psychiatric history. We quantified anxiety and depressive symptom with Zung's self-reporting scales.

RESULTS

A group of 110 women was studied, mean age was 34.4 years (SD 9.4); average scholarity was 9.1 years (SD 4.5); 72.7% was married, and 46.9% was housewife. 68.2% suffered from migraine with aura and 31.6% migraine without aura. 70.0% presented anxiety and 52.7% depression clinically important. Average Zung' scores for anxiety was 53.9 (SD 7.9) and for depression was 51.0 (SD 9.5). It was significant comorbidity migraine associated with anxiety and depression.

CONCLUSIONS

The prevalence of anxiety and depression is high among women with migraine. It was independent of age, scholarity, marital status, occupation and sort of migraine. It is frequent comorbidity anxiety and depressive symptoms among women with migraine.