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  • Title: A Canadian population survey on the clinical, epidemiologic and societal impact of migraine and tension-type headache.
    Author: Pryse-Phillips W, Findlay H, Tugwell P, Edmeads J, Murray TJ, Nelson RF.
    Journal: Can J Neurol Sci; 1992 Aug; 19(3):333-9. PubMed ID: 1393842.
    Abstract:
    Trained telephone interviewers contacted 1,573 adults across Canada about the nature and frequency of headaches suffered by them or by others in their households. Using a table of pain symptoms and other characteristics abstracted from the International Headache Society (IHS) classification, the headaches were assigned to migraine headache, tension-type headache or other diagnostic groups. Of the households sampled, 59% had at least one headache sufferer in residence. The proportion of headache sufferers with migraine was 14%; with tension-type, 36%; and with both, 14%. Migraine headache caused more disability than tension-type headache, with nearly 20% of migraine sufferers taking time off work and disability lasting for a mean of 1 day. It is concluded that the current prevalences of migraine and tension-type headache in Canada fall around the mean of previous studies, that the IHS criteria can form a basis for diagnostic classification and that the functional impact of migraine has been seriously underestimated in the past.
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