Renjith Vishnu, Pai Mamatha Shivananda, Castelino Flavia, Pai Aparna, George Anice
Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Department of Child Health Nursing, Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
J Neurosci Rural Pract. 2016 Apr-Jun;7(2):250-6. doi: 10.4103/0976-3147.176188.
Migraine is a common disabling primary headache disorder. Globally, migraine was ranked as the seventh highest cause of disability.
The aim of the study was to explore the clinical profile and functional disability of patients with migraine.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted at the neurology outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital in Karnataka.
Using a consecutive sampling technique, 60 patients were recruited for the study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data.
Majority of the participants were in the age group of 18-40 years with a mean age 35.22 years. There was a female preponderance with 70% of study participants being females. The various symptoms experienced by patients include throbbing pain (90%), photophobia (93.3%), phonophobia (85%), nausea (76.7%), and vomiting (41.7%). Most of the subjects (73.3%) under the study belonged to moderate to severe levels of functional disability. About 53.3% of patients were in the category of episodic migraine and 46.7% were in the category of chronic migraine.
Migraine is associated with moderate to severe functional disability. Frequency of migraine has a positive correlation with the levels of disability/migraine disability assessment scores of migraineurs.
偏头痛是一种常见的致残性原发性头痛疾病。在全球范围内，偏头痛是导致残疾的第七大原因。
本研究旨在探讨偏头痛患者的临床特征和功能残疾情况。
在卡纳塔克邦一家三级护理医院的神经科门诊进行了一项横断面调查。
采用连续抽样技术，招募了60名患者进行研究。使用描述性和推断性统计方法分析数据。
大多数参与者年龄在18 - 40岁之间，平均年龄为35.22岁。女性占优势，70%的研究参与者为女性。患者经历的各种症状包括搏动性疼痛（90%）、畏光（93.3%）、畏声（85%）、恶心（76.7%）和呕吐（41.7%）。研究中的大多数受试者（73.3%）属于中度至重度功能残疾水平。约53.3%的患者属于发作性偏头痛类别，46.7%属于慢性偏头痛类别。
偏头痛与中度至重度功能残疾有关。偏头痛的发作频率与偏头痛患者的残疾水平/偏头痛残疾评估得分呈正相关。
