Open AccessIs psychiatric morbidity in chronic migraine associated with poor outcome: Experience from a tertiary care centrer
Author(s) -
Vikas Mathur,
Sirisha Komala,
Dheeraj Jhamb,
Jyoti Prakash,
Sharmila Manoj
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_187_20
Subject(s) - migraine , chronic migraine , medicine , anxiety , depression (economics) , psychiatry , neurology , distress , population , physical therapy , clinical psychology , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
Chronic Migraine is defined as headache occurring on 15 or more days/month for more than 3 months, which, on at least 8 days/month, has the features of migraine headache. This constitutes 10%-15% of all migraine patients in a neurology clinic. Literature on psychological comorbidities of chronic migraine in India is scant and it will improve overall patient care once discerned.