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Health-related quality of life and associated factors in Chinese menstrual migraine patients: a cross-sectional study

Menstrual migraine is a particular form of migraine with a significant impact on the quality of life for women afflicted. Presently, no study has reported the quality of life in menstrual migraine patients. This work aims to assess the health-related quality of life and identify its associated facto...

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Published in:BMC women's health 2022-05, Vol.22 (1), p.177-177, Article 177
Main Authors: Luo, Wenxiu, Cao, Xing, Zhao, Jiayu, Yang, Jiaming, Cen, Yu, He, Jinlong, Luo, Jing, Zhong, Yunling, Luo, Ying, Wang, Xinyue, Yang, Liqiu, Feng, Xingyu, Pang, Xiaoqing, Zhang, Jiazhu, Luo, Jiaming
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Summary:Menstrual migraine is a particular form of migraine with a significant impact on the quality of life for women afflicted. Presently, no study has reported the quality of life in menstrual migraine patients. This work aims to assess the health-related quality of life and identify its associated factors among Chinese menstrual migraine patients. The cross-sectional study group consisted of 109 patients with menstrual migraine, and the control group consisted of 397 female patients with non-menstrual migraine. In total, 506 patients completed questionnaires for demographic and clinical information, the Self-rating Idea of Suicide Scale, the Hamilton Depression Scale, the Hamilton Anxiety Scale, the Headache Impact Test-6, the Perceived Social Support Scale, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Health-related quality of life was measured using the 36-Item Short Form Survey. Compared with non-menstrual migraine patients, five dimensions of health-related quality of life were all found to be significantly impaired in menstrual migraine patients. Headache frequency (ß = - 0.218, P = 0.014), the impact of headache on daily life (ß = - 0.270, P = 0.002), depression symptoms (ß = - 0.345, P 
ISSN:1472-6874
1472-6874
DOI:10.1186/s12905-022-01760-8