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Use of Health Care Services in Childhood Migraine
Author(s) -
Metsähonkala Liisa,
Sillanpää Matti,
Tuominen Juhani
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1046/j.1526-4610.1996.3607423.x
Subject(s) - migraine , medicine , aura , migraine with aura , nausea , pediatrics , cohort , population , phonophobia , cohort study , health care , psychiatry , family medicine , anesthesia , environmental health , economics , economic growth
The use of health care services in childhood migraine was studied in a representative population sample of 53 children with migraine. These children elong to a 1‐year age cohort that has been followed since birth. Migraine was diagnosed at the age of 8 to 9 years according to the International Headache Society criteria of migraine in 95 of 3580 children (2.7%). At the time of the present study, 84 of the 95 children were clinically examined at the age of 11 to 13 years. Fifty‐three of them (62.4%) still had migraine and 32 did not. Of these 53 children, 31 (51.8%) had consulted a doctor because of headache. The most important factors linked to the consultation rate were aura symptoms and maximal frequency of attacks. The children who had consulted a doctor more often had nausea and more often came from densely populated areas. They had missed school days more often because of headache than those who had not consulted a doctor.