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We conducted a population-based headache questionnaire survey including questions on physician consultation for headache in Taipei, Taiwan from August 1997 to June 1998. The participants comprised 3377 subjects aged ≥ 15 years, of whom 328 (9.7%) had a diagnosis of migraine and 1754 (52%) had a diagnosis of non-migraine headache. Migraineurs had a higher physician consultation rate (once or more in the past year) than the subjects with non-migraine headache (54% vs. 31%, P < 0.0001). When frequency ≥ 10 times was taken as 10 times, the analysis showed that migraineurs consulted physicians more often than non-migraine headache subjects (2.36 vs. 0.96, P = 0.04). A small proportion of the subjects with either migraine (12%) or non-migraine headache (6%) accounted for 50% of total consultations within their groups. In addition to old age, low education levels, living in a rural area, migrainous features (nausea and photophobia), and work day loss, predictors of physician consultations also included ‘having been troubled with headache’ (odds ratio (OR) = 1.7) and co-morbidity with hypertension (OR = 1.8) or heart disease (OR = 2.2). Low copayment and unrestricted access to medical care

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Author

S-J Wang; J-L Fuh; Y-H Young; S-R Lu; B-C Shia

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; SAGE Publications; Wiley (ISSN 0333-1024)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)