Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
J Altern Complement Med. 2013 Jun;19(6):501-8. doi: 10.1089/acm.2012.0234. Epub 2012 Dec 4.
Anecdotal reports suggest that changes in dog behavior might be used to predict impending migraine episodes. This survey was designed to investigate how companion dogs react to migraines that occur in their owners.
Online survey was available from January 4-31, 2012.
SETTINGS/LOCATION: Survey was conducted through SurveyMonkey, with links to the survey posted at Migraine.com and promoted through social media.
Adults ≥18 years old who experience migraine episodes and live with a dog were eligible to participate.
Participants completed an 18-question online survey that asked about participant demographics, migraines, and their dog's behavior before or during migraine episodes.
The survey was completed by 1029 adult migraineurs (94.9% women), with migraines typically occurring ≤8 days per month in 63.4% of participants. A recognized change in the dog's behavior prior to or during the initial phase of migraine was endorsed by 552 participants (53.7%), most commonly unusual attentiveness to the owner (39.9%). Among the 466 participants providing details about their dog's behavior with their migraines, 57.3% were able to identify dog alerting behavior before symptoms of a migraine attack would typically begin, with changes usually noticed within 2 hours before the onset of initial migraine symptoms. The dog's behavior was considered to be often or usually linked with the development of a migraine for 59.2% of migraineurs, and 35.8% of migraineurs endorsed beginning migraine treatments after the dog's behavior was recognized and before migraine symptoms had started. Participant demographics, migraine frequency, and breed of dog in the home were similar between the 470 participants with no alerting behavior endorsed and the 466 participants providing detailed alerting information.
About one in four migraineurs living with a companion dog endorsed recognizing a change in their dog's behavior before recognizing initial symptoms of a migraine attack.
有传闻称，狗的行为变化可能用于预测即将发生的偏头痛发作。本调查旨在研究陪伴犬对主人偏头痛发作的反应。
2012 年 1 月 4 日至 31 日进行在线调查。
地点/环境：通过 SurveyMonkey 进行调查，在 Migraine.com 上发布链接，并通过社交媒体进行推广。
年龄≥18 岁、经历偏头痛发作且与狗同住的成年人有资格参加。
参与者完成了一份 18 个问题的在线调查，询问了参与者的人口统计学特征、偏头痛和他们的狗在偏头痛发作前或发作期间的行为。
共有 1029 名成年偏头痛患者（94.9%为女性）完成了调查，其中 63.4%的患者偏头痛每月发作≤8 天。552 名参与者（53.7%）认可狗在偏头痛发作前或发作初期出现了明显的行为变化，最常见的是对主人异常关注（39.9%）。在 466 名提供其狗在偏头痛发作时行为细节的参与者中，57.3%的人能够在偏头痛发作前的典型症状开始前识别出狗的预警行为，通常在偏头痛初始症状出现前 2 小时内注意到变化。59.2%的偏头痛患者认为狗的行为通常与偏头痛的发生有关，35.8%的偏头痛患者在识别出狗的行为并在偏头痛症状出现前开始偏头痛治疗。在未认可预警行为的 470 名参与者和提供详细预警信息的 466 名参与者中，参与者的人口统计学特征、偏头痛发作频率和家中的犬种相似。
大约四分之一的与伴侣犬同住的偏头痛患者认可在识别偏头痛发作的初始症状之前，识别到狗的行为发生了变化。
