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An Epidemiological Study of Headache in a Hospital Staff

1981; Wiley; Volume: 21; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1526-4610.1981.hed2105206.x

1526-4610

G. C. Manzoni, Monica Campari, Mario Giovanni Terzano, Giacomo Moretti, Eleonora Fanti,

Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances

SYNOPSIS An epidemiological study of headache has been carried‐out in a hospital staff with the purpose: (a) to check out the prevalence of headache (migraine and muscle‐contraction headache in particular) in an occupational group representative of the working population at large; (b) to verify the existence of clinical aspects generally held peculiar to migraine in different types of headache; (c) to evaluate comparatively the reliability of self‐administered questionnaire and direct clinical interview in order to quantify epidemiologically the various headaches sub‐types. Initially a simple questionnaire was administered to 1331 employees of Parma Regional Hospital; subsequently sufferers from headache were individually submitted to a complete clinical and laboratory examination. On the basis of the questionnaire, 361 subjects (27.12%) resulted to suffer frequently from headache attacks. The subsequent individual examination indicated that 37.1% suffered from common migraine, 27.3% from muscle tension headache, 7.6% from mixed headache, 3.8% from classic migraine, 3% from post‐traumatic headache. The findings which were obtained by self‐administered questionnaire and by individual direct examination are comparatively discussed.