Table 2 Use of medical care
Migraine | Tension-type headache | Cluster headache | Other headache type | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(n = 691) | (n = 1,441) | (n = 21) | (n = 5,208) | |||||
Questions and responses | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
Frequency of current medical visits in the past 6 months | ||||||||
Regularly visited | 44 | 6.4 | 37 | 2.6 | 4 | 19.0 | 124 | 2.4 |
Not regularly visited | 87 | 12.6 | 79 | 5.5 | 5 | 23.8 | 360 | 6.9 |
Not visited | 560 | 81.0 | 1,325 | 92.0 | 12 | 57.1 | 4,724 | 90.7 |
Frequency of medical visits in the past 6 months | ||||||||
≥ Once/week | 2 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.1 |
Once/2 weeks | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 12 | 0.2 |
Once/month | 22 | 3.2 | 14 | 1.0 | 2 | 9.5 | 40 | 0.8 |
Once/2 months | 10 | 1.4 | 9 | 0.6 | 1 | 4.8 | 24 | 0.5 |
Once/3 months | 5 | 0.7 | 9 | 0.6 | 1 | 4.8 | 23 | 0.4 |
< Once/3 months | 5 | 0.7 | 3 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 21 | 0.4 |
Reasons for initially seeing a doctor for headache (multiple answers) | ||||||||
Unable to tolerate headaches | 106 | 15.3 | 104 | 7.2 | 8 | 38.1 | 355 | 6.8 |
Worried about other brain diseases | 65 | 9.4 | 85 | 5.9 | 3 | 14.3 | 327 | 6.3 |
Increased headache frequency | 55 | 8.0 | 65 | 4.5 | 4 | 19.0 | 189 | 3.6 |
OTC analgesics no longer effective | 48 | 6.9 | 29 | 2.0 | 3 | 14.3 | 107 | 2.1 |
Reasons for seeing a doctor once for headache and not seeing thereafter (multiple answers) | ||||||||
Relieved not to have a brain disease that threatened life | 18 | 2.6 | 47 | 3.3 | 1 | 4.8 | 162 | 3.1 |
Too much trouble | 10 | 1.4 | 21 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 55 | 1.1 |
No time | 8 | 1.2 | 12 | 0.8 | 2 | 9.5 | 30 | 0.6 |
Prescription drugs ineffective | 8 | 1.2 | 7 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 17 | 0.3 |
Reasons for not seeing a doctor in the past 3 years (multiple answers) | ||||||||
OTC analgesics effective | 260 | 37.6 | 461 | 32.0 | 3 | 14.3 | 1,586 | 30.5 |
Used to having a headache | 155 | 22.4 | 186 | 12.9 | 5 | 23.8 | 545 | 10.5 |
Spontaneously resolving after endurance | 143 | 20.7 | 421 | 29.2 | 1 | 4.8 | 1,290 | 24.8 |
Pain not sufficiently severe | 114 | 16.5 | 482 | 33.4 | 1 | 4.8 | 1,734 | 33.3 |