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Table 1 Sections and topics of survey

From: Real-life experiences with galcanezumab and predictors for treatment response in Turkey

Section

Questions

Topics

Demographics

1–6, 13

Identity, age, gender, education, work status, physician

Comorbidities

8,9

Comorbid diseases and treatment

Clinical features of migraine

10,11

Type*, duration

Previous migraine treatment

12

Past preventive treatment/s,

Provider of galcanezumab

7

Reimbursement method

Information about Galcanezumab treatment

14,15,16,17, 20,21,22

Continuing and/or quitting of treatment, a number of injections, a last date of injection, a duration of treatment, a length of treatment,

Headache improvements with galcanezumab treatment

18,19, 30, 32, 36,37

 A general thought about galcanezumab (beneficial or not), changes of headache frequency and severity, and frequency of acute medication use, MHDs, acute medication use in the past month

Side effects

23,24

Adverse effect/s

Previous clinical status of migraine

25,26,27, 28, 29

Pre-treatment MHDs, pain severity, acute medication use per month, classes of acute medication**

Patient- reported primary outcomes

31, 33, 35

Change rates (0-100 scale) of headache frequency, severity, acute medication use

Accompanying symptoms

38, 39, 40

Accompanying symptoms during migraine attacks and improvement rates in those symptoms, MBS

Interictal burden

41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54

Mood, life quality, health, sleep, anxiety, control of migraine, sense of helpless, social or leisure activities, interpersonal relationships, attention, and concentration

  1. MHDs: Monthly headache days, MBS: Most bothersome symptom, MwA: Migraine wiht aura, MwoA: migraine without aura, NSAIDs: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
  2. * Migraine wiht aura or migraine without aura or both
  3. ** Simple pain killers, NSAIDs, triptans, combination medications, ergotamine, metamizole, opioids, herbals, non-pharmacologic approaches