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Table 3 The prevalence of lifetime headache by age, sex, university, academic year, and performance

From: Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of headache among medical students in Palestine: a cross sectional study

Variable

Migraine

TTH

Yes

n (%)

NO

n (%)

P-Value

Yes

n (%)

NO

n (%)

P-Value

Age, mean ± SD

21.1 ± 2.1

20.9 ± 2.1

0.492

21.1 ± 2.1

20.8 ± 2.1

0.027

Sex

 Males

64 (36.1)

266 (42.2)

0.143

184 (38.1)

146 (45)

0.051

 Female

113 (63.8)

363 (57.7)

298 (61.8)

178 (54.9)

Marital Status

 Single

166 (93.7)

605 (96.8)

0.167

460 (95.4)

311 (95.9)

0.706

 Married

11 (06.2)

24 (3.8)

22 (4.5)

13 (4)

University

 An-Najah

52 (29.3)

234 (37.2)

0.083

196 (40.6)

90 (27.2)

0.002

 Al-Quds

41 (23.1)

160 (25.4)

114 (23.6)

87 (26.8)

 Al-Islamiyah

42 (23.7)

127 (20.1)

90 (18.6)

79 (24.3)

 Al-Azhar

42 (23.7)

108 (17.1)

82 (17)

68 (20.9)

Year

 Basic

92 (51.9)

327 (51.9)

0.998

234 (48.5)

185 (57.5)

0.017

 Clinical

85 (48.1)

302 (48.1)

248 (51.4)

139 (42.9)

Academic Performance

 Excellent

30 (16.9)

114 (18.1)

0.163

87 (18)

57 (17.5)

0.945

 Very Good

102 (57.6)

314 (49.9)

250 (51.8)

166 (51.2)

 Good

45 (25.4)

201 (31.9)

145 (30)

101 (31.1)

Family History

 Yes

87 (49.1)

218 (34.6)

< 0.001

192 (39.8)

113 (34.8)

< 0.001

 NO

55 (31.1)

206 (32.7)

175 (36.3)

86 (26.5)

 Unknown

35 (19.7)

205 (32.5)

115 (23.8)

125 (38.5)