Abstract: (12238 Views)
Background: Migraine is the most common type of headache in the world and is
one of the most important causes of patients to come to the neurologist office.
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of migraine in high school
students.
Materials and methods: This is a descriptive study which was done on 2213 high
school student, that accidentally chosen from couple of times a multi- step random
sampling. Gathered instrument of information was a questionnaire from, which
includes two parts: first part contained basic questions (age, sex, …) and the second
part was the main questions specially headache, nausea, vomiting, time when
headache started, visual problem and …
The information was analyzed by SPSS 9.0 soft ware
Findings: The overall incidence of headache was 44.46% (31.09% in male and
68.9% in female group). The most common type of Migraine was common Migraine
(65.44%). According to the general population incidence of common Migraine is
13.06 percent, 0.4% ophtamoplegic and 32.53% tension headache.
Conclusions: According to high school incidence of headaches in population were
studied and many problems coming after headache, so attention to treatment of
headache is very important.
Type of Study:
Research |
Received: 2013/01/22 | Accepted: 2021/10/13 | Published: 2006/01/15